Terracon: An Automatic Graphics Database Conversion Program for Joint Tactical Simulation Databases

Abstract

The Joint Tactical Simulation (JTS) is a distributed, stochastic, entity-level, real-time, interactive simulation, developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). JTS provides the user with a two-dimensional (2-D) view of its simulation with a capability to zoom in or out. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed a visualization tool for viewing JTS in three dimensions. In support of this visualization tool, ARL has developed a UNIX-based, command-line program, Terracon, which automatically converts a JTS database into a three-dimensional (3-D) graphics database for use with the visualization tool.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA331247

Entities

People

  • Victor M. Long

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Training
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computers
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Distributed Interactive Simulations
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Information Science
  • Military Research
  • Polygons
  • Simulations
  • Terrain Following
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications