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From: jimw@microsoft.UUCP (Jim Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Stereoscopic 3D Flight Simulator
Message-ID: <270@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 03:47:46 GMT
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In article <45@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz) writes:
>
>  I'm writing a simple flight simulator using a stereoscopic 3D
>display.  I'm looking for a text on flight simulation, the only one
>I know of is:
>                        Garrison, Paul
>                        Microcomputers and Aviation
>                        New York: Wiley Press, c1985
>
>UCSD doesn't have the book; is it a good text? Know of any others?
>

   You might want to try
      Applied Concepts in Microcomputer Graphics
      Bruce A. Artwick
      Prentice-Hall, 1984
      ISBN 0-13-039322-3

   Bruce Artwick is the president of Sublogic Corporation, and a number of
the algorithms, illustrations, etc. in the book refer to simulations
(flight simulations in particular).  I haven't referred to the book in
quite a while, so I can't really remember what I thought about it, but I'm
sure that it will help in a number of areas.  A quick glance through it
shows sections on viewer perspectives and appropriate transformations,
various ways to speed image generation, etc.

-- 
Jim Walsh                       jimw@microsof.beaver.cs.washington.EDU
Microsoft Corporation           jimw@microsof@uw-beaver.ARPA 
                                jimw@microsof.UUCP
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