Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tides in FlightGear?

[Curtis L. O. <cur...@fl...>]

Martin Spott wrote:

>"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
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>>The trick maybe to find a good sea floor elevation database that is 
>>reasonably compatible with SRTM, and mesh the two data sets seamlessly.
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>  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/relief.html
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>has an interesting survey on bathymetric data. But I don't think we
>need a realistic simulation of the effect for use in Flightgear,
>changing colours according to the tidal changes should be sufficient.
>This could be done by declaring respective areas of the ocean as
>tideland and moving the shoreline proportionally to the time that has
>passed since the last hig- or low-tides.
>Still someone would have to develop a schema to calculate the tides ....
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 From a technical standpoint, how would you plan to "move" shoreline and 
change all the underlying triangle structures in real time?

Curt.

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