A user's manual and program description of SEA PLOT
Subtitle: a three-dimensional graphics program depicting a war-at-sea encounter between a single ship and a single aircraft
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Aeronautics
Description: SEA PLOT is a three-dimensional graphics program written for the Compass Hammer research effort. The program portrays a war-at-sea scenario in which a single aircraft attacks a single ship target located at the origin of an earth-fixed coordinate system. To plot the three-dimensional scenario on a two- dimensional plotting surface, a conic projection technique is used in which a cone of vision is generated based on the position of a viewer's eye. The position of the eye is automatically placed based upon the initial coordinate position of the attacking aircraft. The program is written using VERSATEC software available on the NPS IBM 3033 computer. However, the program has been structured in such a manner as to permit easy transition to a more sophisticated, picture oriented, graphics language such as PLOT 80 which would permit an interactive graphics employment of the program and possibly animation of the attacking scenario. (Author)
Notes: Thesis (M.S. in E.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 1981.

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