Real-Time Digital Terrain Image Generator.
Rory Clark, Pferdner,R · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1985
The Technology Service Corporation has created a real-time digital terrain image generator. The system, HELICON, has been installed and integrated into the Human Engineering Laboratory's (HEL) Human Factors Research Simulator (HFRS) system. HELICON receives location and attitude data in real time from one of the crew station components of the HFRS and provides stylized representations of terrain as would be seen from the crew station. The HELICON system exceeds most of the contract's performance requirements, like gaming area size, flight capability, maximum viewing distance, and number of moving objects. It creates computer-generated imagery in full color at the rate of 15 frames per second (fps), with a density of 50 objects per square mile (mi2) and an image resolution of 512 x 512. (Author)