Airport surface fitting.

"Curtis L. Olson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.terragear.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
FYI,

I fixed a couple problems with airport surface fitting.

1. Yeah, kick me, I still had some row/column reversal brain damage.  
The nurbs library matrix routines uses M(row,col) while points are (x, 
y, z) and nurbs surface u,v space was backwards from what I thought it 
should be and nothing is really documented.  I started graphing out 
pictures until I got it all sorted out.

2. nurbs surfaces work in u,v space which is defined across the length 
of the surface, not across x, y.  I was blindly hoping that things would 
be close enough for our purposes, but the difference can be 
substantial.  I introduced a "solver" to find the right u,v 
corresponding to the desired lon,lat point and this also improves the 
resulting surface accuracy quite a bit.

Curt.

-- 
Curtis Olson   Intelligent Vehicles Lab         FlightGear Project
Twin Cities    [email protected]                  [email protected]
Minnesota      http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt   http://www.flightgear.org
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.