[Gllug] Plank Drivers

[SteveC]

* John Hearns (john.hearns at cern.ch) wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 16:07, John Southern wrote:
> > Silent Wings
> > http://home.online.no/~tseval/sw/
> > 
> Wow!
> 
> I would imagine that they're not doing any realistic physics for
> thermals and things. At a wild guess I would think a 'thermal' would be
> simulated by a circular area where the aircraft is given a constant
> lift.

...dropping with altitude

> I would say that putting in any realistic physics for these things would
> be non-trivial.
> (Non-trivial is the sort of smarmy word that physicists use).
> 
> Anyone know for sure????

IMHO its far more important to have a hydraulic platform than to have 
more detailed scenery / physics...

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/

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