-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Wojnaroski wrote: > > Have also been experimenting with curved reflective surfaces trying to > remove/reduce the distortions caused by mapping a 3D world onto a 2D > plane. Idea is to project an image onto the surface and then reflect it > onto a curved screen. Since the surfaces tend to be parabolas, getting > the shape right is a bit more difficult than a circle with a constant > radius. > > Now here is a thought I'll throw on the table. Could one render the > flightgear screen to a texture and then paste the texture onto an > mathematically defined surface of appropriate dimensions and curvature? > Kind of a virtual lense. 60 degrees per view, three channels and you > have a 180 degree field of view. would that work in lieu of a > mechanical solution? Any optics experts out there?
That's one way it's done in projection systems. See examples/osgdistortion in the Open Scene Graph source tree. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFSZUgeDhWHdXrDRURAnSHAJ9P6MXuXCefc5a9snz7LRLvh229KgCg01X3 r2FvDIFj1B/xZrcEsXbXBkA= =0etN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
