In November 2001, I invented an idea I called "Battlevision"...a strange idea which I had difficulty explaining to others. The basic idea was to synthesize...
... Note that Photosynth is just Microsoft's name for their product. There are several other products by other companies. The general name for the concept is...
... I think I'll comment on radiators instead: Droplet radiators can't be armored. They just aren't very vulnerable to being shot at. In general, the limit on...
... Please drop the angles! Instead decompose (not you!) the vectors for each ship into X,Y,Z vectors. The final X velocity for the dogpile of ships is:...
... Only correction I can see is that electromagnets are not inverse square attractors. At large distances R, in fact, the force on a permanent magnet will...
... Why not pump a magnetic field or electric current (there are no magnetic charges sorry), through a plasma to grapple objects? -HJC http://www.io.com/~hcobb...
... Well, you won't get that treatment from me. I'm guilty of daydreaming about ships using tractor beams to swing through asteroid fields like space...
... vectors. Yeah. Somewhere I have my notes on a vector game I was working on, about thirty years ago. I had an (overly complicated) method of doing a...
... section... ... Which was basically the system used in TOM SWIFT AND THE RACE TO THE MOON. Tom used pressor beams called "repelatrons" as a propulsion ...
For some reason I want to start singing.. spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can. after being presented with that image ... [Non-text portions of...
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/radar/part5.htm#pg5-5 You can laugh, but un-Naval me was unaware about the existence of the "maneuvering board" until a couple of hours...
... Don't forget that diamond is TRANSPARENT to useful radiator wavelengths. Thus, the coolant can directly radiate waste heat through the diamond pretty much...
... As a point of detail: see that blue water line? That shows wavelengths to _not_ use, because it means atmospheric water vapor is opaque at those...
... That makes it a window for radiation directly coming from the underlying fluid. Alternately, you can simply apply a thin layer of an opaque radiator...
... Scrolling past the new stuff, I came across the weapons classification system attributed to me (and Isaac). I had actually forgotten about that. -- Erik...
... I don't know whether to applaud or be appalled. [grin] ... According to the novelization of _Star Wars_, the Millennium Falcon uses something like that....
This reminds me -- in Alexis Gilliland's _The End of the Empire_, a "tractor beam" was really just a laser that allowed precise measurements to be input to...
There HAS to be a way. And if its a submarine plot would it not be relevant to 3D? :-) ... -- Yours, Keith [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... Submarines are really only 2.5D. For a sub, you really only have to have four options for depth: Surfaced, periscope depth, above layer, below layer. ...
... The 2d vector movement systems I have described previously use this type of visual vector addition in order to walk a player through the steps required to...
... And just possibly "ridiculous depth" where launching anything that doesn't swim out is nigh impossible, and any weapon with an exhaust moves at a snail's...
I hear that the equations for gravity waves in GR are non-linear, and that gravity waves are supposed to be able to interact in such a way as to form a remote...
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