Miniature Air Handling System for Portable Fuel Cell Power Supplies

Not Available A method has been developed for improving the appearance, performance, and overall quality of visual scenes rendered in real time from large area terrain databases. An innovative modeling and database development technique called Splotting, provides for the building of high-resolution databases comprised of high-resolution models incorporated into lower resolution source imagery. Splotting is a process of capturing orthographic geo-specific imagery of a geo-typical terrain database, then creating a clip mapped texture of that imagery to be mapped to a terrain contour. Through this technique high resolution textures can be inserted into the clip stack of a run-time database to provide high resolution geo-specific imagery with an optimized geometry (reduced polygons). By utilizing this technique, the appearance of textured terrain can be improved dramatically while improving the throughput of the rendering system. This approach overcomes many of the deficiencies associated with image resolution and source data. For this phase I program, MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc. will further develop the Splotting process and address the commercialization of splotting software tools into existing COTS products.