GRANDTOUR can simulate space as seen from the Voyager and Giotto spacecraft. In addition, GRANDTOUR can generate scenes from arbitrary points in space or the Earth, with the spacecraft visible to the observer. The planet, moons, and rings of interest (or comet, nucleus, and tail), stars, the sun, and the spacecraft acre all accurately drawn with wireframe representations. Hidden line removal is done for the body surfaces. The motions of the bodies themselves acre highly accurate, with errors no greater than 500 kilometers. User have to conduct the considerable which of his time step, field of view, etc., and frame many people per second is characteriscally generated. Program is originally developed in Jet Propulsion Laboratory by John D. Callahan to assist in analysis of optic navigation data and science. In addition, program filmed by BBC as part of a NOVA documentary in meeting Voyager Uranus, and by Four Point Entertainment Company to a the video is available commercially in Halley's Comet. Program is conveniently run from any Windows/DOS.
GrandTour
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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