Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1988-04-11
1990-02-20
Harkcom, Gary V.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
340747, 364521, 434 43, G09B 908
Patent
active
049032160
ABSTRACT:
A method for presenting intervisibility data relative to an observation point. A data base of terrain altitudes is stored in computer memory. The data base comprises terrain altitudes at a grid of points in a selected terrestrial area encompassing the observation point. Visible heights from the observation point at the grid points are derived from the data base with a computer by performing a number of steps grid point by grid point in succession in an order moving away from the observation point. The first step is to determine a projected height at the grid point from the visible heights between the observation point and the grid point. The second step is to compare the projected height with the terrain altitude at the grid point. The third step is select as the visible height at the grid point the larger of the compared terrain altitude and the projected height. A number representative of the visible height at each grid point as so derived with a computer is stored in computer memory. The computer memory is coupled to a visual display device to present the stored representations of the visible height in spatial relationship coordinated with the spatial relationship of the grid points of the terrestrial area. The visible height data is derived by use of the similar triangles theorem, and interpolation of previously calculated visible heights.
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Denlinger Robert M.
Huss Ronald E.
Alkov Leonard A.
Denson-Low W. K.
Harkcom Gary V.
Herndon H. R.
Hughes Aircraft Company
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