Final Project

Boat-Wake Visualization using Open Inventor

Abstract:

We wrote Open Inventor programs to create interactive visualizations of boat-wake data created by the theories of Dr. Sussman, a faculty member of the FSU Mathematics Department.

Paper (in HTML format)
Sorry, couldn't make it to ps or pdf. I'm lucky Word didn't mangle the HTML more than it did (Don't worry, I removed most of the mangled stuff).

Code (65k tarball)

Movies

• Bow of the boat
  
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• Overhead view
  
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• Stern of the boat (Notice the breaking wave!)
  
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• Rotating view
  
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