* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Saturday 22 May 2004 00:39: > On Friday 21 May 2004 23:41, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > I uploaded a new version that contains a weird ASI with non-linear > > mapper #n. Looks strange. No idea what they had in mind. > > I guess that when one wants to monitor for example the approach speed it makes > sense to have greater scale resolution around the approach speed.
Yes, but why is 10--20 not spread that much, and why is 80--100, but not 60--80 and not 100--120. Must have to do with the blue line, but what? This was modelled after "Jim's" cockpit photo (ttp://www.airliners.net/open.file/438320/L/) -- all other bo105 cockpit photos have an evenly spaced ASI. These just weren't sharp enough. Maybe I'll replace that instrument with a more common (and less obscure) one. (Was it just a leftover from the flea market? For a totally different aircraft? ;-) > This document contains a lot of MetaPost hints and methods, and is a nice > supplenet to the user manual: > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf Some interesting stuff, but mostly related to the LaTeX "competitor" ConTeXt, and not to MP. m. PS: I've yet again updated the file. Now it outputs interpolation table entries for the *.xml file. Only need to be copied over, e.g.: $ mpost bo105.mp This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (bo105.mp ========== Dual Engine/Rotor Tachometer ========== <entry><ind>0</ind><dep>35</dep></entry><!-- Rotor RPM 0% --> <entry><ind>221</ind><dep>151</dep></entry><!-- Rotor RPM 50% --> <entry><ind>442</ind><dep>267</dep></entry><!-- Rotor RPM 100% --> [...] PPS: It's a little known fact, but the led.txf font that is used in the radios and many instruments was done with MetaPost, too. PPPS: I'll stop with MP-propaganda now. :-) m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
