Good news, Tom! Looks like I actually had all three stashed away in my personal data archive. They're terrible scans but legible and even somewhat OCR'd searchable. I didn't see any mention as to which version of the format they describe, but I didn't read them cover to cover either.
I'll e-mail them off-list given their size. At some point in the future, I'd like to get them (and the dozens of others I have stashed away) up onto the website into a historic BRL-CAD papers archive. Probably after the new website comes online later this year... Cheers! Sean On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > The following three reports are marked as publicly releasable in DTIC: > > ================================ > > Accession Number : ADA000897 > > Title : Extensions and Adjuncts to the BRL-COMGEOM Program. > > Descriptive Note : Final rept. Sep 72-Dec 73, > > Corporate Author : MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS GROUP INC ELMSFORD N Y > > Personal Author(s) : Brooks,Joan > > Report Date : AUG 1974 > > Pagination or Media Count : 45 > > Abstract : The tasks completed under this contract and described in > the report are: (1) The addition to the list of available body types > of two new bodies, the general ellipsoid and the 'arbitrary quadric > surface'; (2) The development of a geometry preprocessor program > capable of producing GIFT input from a more limited, user-oriented, > set of descriptions; (3) Development of a BRL-COMGEOM model of the > M109A1 tank. The first two tasks are described in some detail. The > modeling task is embodied in an input deck for the GIFT code and is > described briefly in the last section. > > Descriptors : *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, *GEOMETRY, *COMBINATORIAL > ANALYSIS, COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, MATRICES(MATHEMATICS), SURFACES, > RAY TRACING. > > Subject Categories : THEORETICAL MATHEMATICS > COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE > > Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE > > ================================ > > Accession Number : ADB006037 > > Title : The Gift Code User Manual. Volume I. Introduction and Input > Requirements. > > Descriptive Note : Final rept., > > Corporate Author : BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABS ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD > > Personal Author(s) : Bain,Lawrence W. , Jr. ; Reisinger,Mathew J. > > Report Date : JUL 1975 > > Pagination or Media Count : 60 > > Abstract : This report is a user's manual which describes the input > requirements of the GIFT code. The primary input to the GIFT code is > target description data which defines the three-dimensional shape and > spacial location of the components of a target. A target may be a > tank, a truck, a building or any other physical structure. To prepare > target description data, engineering drawings, photographs, technical > and reference manuals and/or any other data which describe the > three-dimensional shape and space of components of the target are > required. > > Descriptors : (*Computer programs, Instruction manuals), > (*Computerized simulation, Target signatures), Machine coding, > Targets, Tanks(Combat vehicles), Flow charting, Moment of inertia, > Center of gravity, Geometric forms, Structural properties, Three > dimensional, Vulnerability, Buildings, Thickness, Punched cards, > Vehicles, Trucks > > Subject Categories : COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE > COMPUTER HARDWARE > > Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE > > ================================ > Accession Number : ADA078364 > > Title : The Gift Code User Manual. Volume II. The Output Options. > > Descriptive Note : Final rept., > > Corporate Author : ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD > > Personal Author(s) : Kuehl ,Gary G. ; Bain,Lawrence W. , Jr. ; > Reisinger,Mathew J. > > Report Date : SEP 1979 > > Pagination or Media Count : 202 > > Abstract : The Geometric information for Targets (GIFT) code is a > FORTRAN language code used to mathematically describe the geometry of > a three-dimensional vehicle such as a tank, truck or helicopter. The > geometric data generated by the GIFT code is merged in vulnerability > computer codes with the energy effects data of a selected munition to > simulate the probabilities of malfunction or destruction of components > when it is attacked by the selected munition. To simulate the geometry > of a vehicle, the GIFT code uses combinatorial geometry (COM-GEOM) > data. The COM-GEOM data consists of three tables: a Solid Table, a > Region Table, and a Region Identification Table. The GIFT code > contains numerous tests and checks to ensure that COM-GEOM data listed > in these three tables is correct. The GIFT code options include those > which graphically display the vehicle, those which check the > correctness of the geometry data, those which compute physical > characteristics of the vehicle, and those which generate the geometric > data used by vulnerability codes. The user manual describes the tests > made on the COM-GEOM data, the output options and the output generated > by the GIFT code. > > Descriptors : *COMPUTER PROGRAMS, *TARGET SIGNATURES, *GEOMETRIC > FORMS, COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, OUTPUT, VULNERABILITY, SHAPE, THREE > DIMENSIONAL, HELICOPTERS, GROUND VEHICLES, AERIAL TARGETS, > SUBROUTINES, MALFUNCTIONS, SURFACE TARGETS, MACHINE CODING, > INSTRUCTION MANUALS, STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS, PUNCHED CARDS. > > Subject Categories : COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE > COMPUTER HARDWARE > > Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE > > ================================ > > Cheers! > > -Tom > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to > monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second > resolution app monitoring today. 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