My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

Post by d1sxeyes » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

jefftk wrote: post #224

d1sxeyes wrote: post #183

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Not sure if you picked up your own slight mistake earlier, but this is also exactly why you shouldn't try and 'tween' the planes to the new positions if you're aiming for realism.

Huh? What I'm proposing if you want to make it realistic (which may or may not be good UI) is: * Everything fades from when it was drawn * Everything is only drawn with the sweep * Simulate a continuous motion for the planes, and use that to determine a new position at each sweep. Did I make a mistake?

Post by cheekibreeki2 » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 3:19 PM UTC

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Post by psunavy03 » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:16 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #236

seanc wrote: post #232

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Fun fact, there's a swanky gated community in Florida where you can do just that: https://www.architecturendesign.net/john-travoltas-house-is-...

Fly-in communities are actually pretty common as far as aviation stuff goes. There are probably several hundred in the US.

Post by meonkeys » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:55 PM UTC

Full_Clark wrote: post #131

Nice work and nice writeup. It's interesting to me how strongly the design of original radar displays anchors the project. Your toddler might never interact with a real CRT, much less an ASR-9 with a PPI display. But you've gone to great lengths to simulate one for her. Partly because of your affinity for skeumorphism, as you said, but it may also be because the OG radar display is a fantastic distillation of "Is the…