i wonder if this includes Robertson & Reichert's work on the Sikorsky Prize winning Human powered helicopter (~Atlas)? i think they were going to put their code in the public domain and believe it was based on this code.
---~ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atlas-helicopter-watch-the-record-setting-flight-of-atlas-the-human-powered-helicopter/ greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 31 January 2015 at 08:41 subject: [Jchat] airfoils >Some fun things to play with, of possible interest to some of the J community: http://www.openvsp.org/ >This is a parametric geometry design tool. "VSP" stands for "Vehicle Sketch Pad". Supplied binaries are only for windowsan mac, but the source is at https://github.com/OpenVSP/OpenVSP/. I've not tried building it on openbsd (or, linux) yet. >It might also be fun to create J bindings for so of the libraries it uses? I think J should be a natural for playing with the math involved, but getting at the data is currently more tedious than it should be. >It might also be worth implementing some J support for some of its file formats. I don't think we have any of these supported yet (tell me if I am wrong?): *.fel Felisa file, *.hrm Cross Section (XSec) file, *.stl Sterolith file, *.3dm Rhino3D file, bodyin.dat NASCART file, *.plt TecPlot file or STecPlot file and, *.pov Persistence of Vision Raytracer -------------------------------- http://www.xflr5.com/xflr5.htm This is something of a virtual wind tunnel, so it goes well with openvsp. See also http://sourceforge.net/projects/xflr5/ (Windows binary, compilation supported on windows, mac and linux.) >I've not taken the time yet to play with this, it looks fun - but anything worth doing takes time. Thanks, Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
