Re: [Flightgear-devel] Collimation...(OT)
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Torsten Dreyer wrote: http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll/collimated_display.html Sorry - we're VERY proud of this. (and yes, I've briefly considered yelling about it from my roof-top *laughs*) g. Have you ever been to Lelystad? FSWeekend is _the_ place to present this to the public! I was talking to Tim about this today. If the required image distortion functionality is implemented by the next FSWeekend, the FlightGear booth could shut down the whole show. :) Someone over there would have to build one though - providing of course we can publish plans. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Collimation...(OT)
Gene Buckle wrote: I was talking to Tim about this today. If the required image distortion functionality is implemented by the next FSWeekend, the FlightGear booth could shut down the whole show. :) I think we already started paving the way with this year's presentation ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Collimation...(OT)
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Martin Spott wrote: Gene Buckle wrote: I was talking to Tim about this today. If the required image distortion functionality is implemented by the next FSWeekend, the FlightGear booth could shut down the whole show. :) I think we already started paving the way with this year's presentation ;-) Indeed! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Collimation...(OT)
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:03:02 -0800 (PST), Gene wrote in message alpine.lfd.2.00.1011240440240.14...@grumble.deltasoft.com: On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: *VERY* cool stuff, and not OT at all!!! Are you going to sell kits? ..mylar space blanket type metall foil? Round the edges around the bath tub and paint the box to throttle the diffuse air leaks so you can fly non-jet aircraft with due realism. ;o) Not a chance. We're not even sure if we can give plans away. ..those plans are your works of art. ..drawing plans or writing an How-to-make-your-own does not violate any patents, if it merely teaches the interested hobbyist or student of technology, how to exercise a patent to make his own screen for his own education and entertainment. ..if the interested hobbyist sells _many_ of these and either makes a profit or causes a commercial loss to the patent holder or anyone of his licensees, there may be a patent infringement. ..patents are meant to promote science and the arts by granting the innovator a timed monopoly on the commercial exercise of the patent and to anyone he licenses by giving or selling etc a patent license to. We referenced a few active patents in the mirror itself. ..patent numbers, please? The next iteration we're going to try to eliminate that. If we can't, we'll try contacting the grantees to see if they'll grant a limited, hobbyist use license. ..ok, seeing the videos (they are getting viral ;o)), I got a coupla ideas of my own, so I want to see the patents first, and then talk. ;o) ..beware that posting an idea here on this list, probably renders that idea un-patentable, because posts this list are open to the general public and therefore published. ..such posting can also be used to shoot down a patent application by simply timestamping it as published. If we don't find a solution, all we can do is point folks at the source data with the caveat that they've got to figure out the details themselves. ..those details are in the patent text and images. I'll know more on this for sure on Saturday when Wayne I can spend some time on it. Wayne has developed some insanely cool tools using Excel that spits out geometry data based on a few inputs - I'm hoping we can release those at some point. That would be up to Wayne though. ..these are Wayne's own works under his own copyright. ;o) Neat negotiation card on the patent holder, we can make and share a profit, _together_. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
