Computer Synthesis of Flight Simulation Visuals.

Abstract

A review is presented of the principles of computer synthesis of external world visuals for raster displays. The areas of environment description, edge and polygon clipping, hidden surface removal, shading and image aberrations are discussed. Particular attention is given to hierarchical environment structure, image coherence, shading functions and area-averaging edge smoothing techniques. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA081836

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People

  • John Sandor

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Cameras
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Flight Simulations
  • Flight Simulators
  • Flight Training
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Light Sources
  • Materials Science
  • Simulations
  • Specular Reflection
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.