Computer graphics display of motion of a shuttle-attached dipole antenna / by F.R. Vigneron and M. Savoie.: Co24-3/7-1359-1982E-PDF

"This report describes a computer-generated animation of the dynamics of a flexible body which consists of a long dipole antenna mounted on the Shuttle. The work is a part of a joint NRC-NASA program, Waves in Space Plasma (WISP). The animation facility consists of a PDP-11/45 and a modified NORPAK Incremental Graphics Processor (IGP). An analytical formulation, in which the antenna deformation is represented with a product series of time-dependent variables and simple polynomial shape coordinates, was found to be a good choice for the animation. The computer and graphics facility enabled efficient on-line animation. In a mode where calculations are done off-line, speeds of 60 times faster than real-time were achieved with no problems"--Abstract, page 1.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Communications Research Centre (Canada), issuing body.
Title Computer graphics display of motion of a shuttle-attached dipole antenna / by F.R. Vigneron and M. Savoie.
Series title CRC report ; no. 1359
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "Space Technology and Applications Branch."
Digitized edition from print [produced by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada].
Some pages rotated in this copy.
Includes bibliographical references (page 17).
Issued also in print format.
Publishing information Ottawa : Communications Research Centre, September 1982.
Author / Contributor Vigneron, F. R., author.
Description 1 online resource (vi, 26 pages) : illustrations.
Catalogue number
  • Co24-3/7-1359-1982E-PDF
Subject terms Space shuttles -- Electronic equipment.
Antennas, Dipole.
Flexible structures.
Computer animation.
Navettes spatiales -- Équipement électronique.
Antennes doublets.
Structures flexibles.
Animation par ordinateur.
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