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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