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Computer generated images for aircraft use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. C. Evans
D. C. Evans*
Affiliation:
Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation
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In recent years digital computer technology has been employed to produce visual images for use in the training of aircraft pilots by simulation. The technology employed is that of computer graphics which has been in use since the 1950s in a variety of man-machine systems. The rudiments of a basic computer graphics system are represented schematically in Fig. 1. They are a graphics computer and a human operator. The interaction proceeds as follows:

  • (i) the computer produces a visual image;

  • (ii) the operator sees the image;

  • (iii) the operator generates a response which he sends to the computer;

  • (iv) the computer in turn causes some change in the visual image.

The use of this closed loop communication may vary greatly from application-to-application but the principles are universal.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 82 , Issue 812 , August 1978 , pp. 342 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1978 

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