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Polaris ships bridge simulator - Visual system
Introduction
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Harbour approach
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Search and rescue exercise
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Harbour approach in foggy conditions
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Navigating in ice while it is snowing
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Navigating in rough sea
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Sunset
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Moonlit night
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Fast craft in moderate sea
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Navigation close to oil rigs.
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Our visual systems use PCs and the latest graphics technology. Visual scenes
are constructed using the industry standard realtime 3D scene description database,
OpenFlight®, and the software is virtually hardware independent. This
makes expansion and upgrading easy as technology progresses. The realism depth perception
and ability to realistically recreate the various conditions experienced at sea,
placesit in a class of it's own.
Key features
- Realistic seascape displaying real three-dimensional waves with multilevel
sea state control
- Sky with stars, sun, etc.
- All weather conditions modelled including fog, fog banks, clouds, rain ,
snow etc.
- Very realistic ice function - the best available on the marked
- Reflections in the water
- Sea state according to the Beaufort scale - up to 16 meter 3D waves modelled
including wind driven white caps
- Starboard and port wing view control for docking
- Joystick controlled binocular, panning and searchlight
Scene content
Safe navigation requires attention to detail. The level of detail found in SeaView®R5
meets the requirements of the most demanding navigational tasks. Traffic vessel
roll and pitch, tug operations alongside and the movement of hoses and mooring lines
provide a level of detail not previously available with ship simulation.
Enhancements
The superiority of SeaView®R5 is based on its ability to incorporate
visual enhancements. Special effects include photo-realistic-texturing, mip-mapped
textures, transparency and transparent textures, wind and wave related 3D-sea state,
a selection of sky textures, sea colours and sun angle dependent illumination.
Target ships
Traffic ships can be fully photo-textured and includes navigation lights, superstructure,
enlivened bow and stern waves and wakes varying with speed. Rotating radar antennas
or propeller blades such as for Hoover crafts or other moving sub-models are included.
They move according to their orientation and prevailing sea state. Targets are capable
of showing various day symbols or light configurations indicating their activities
(such as restricted ability to manoeuvre) according to rules of the road. Special
targets include airplanes, helicopters, floating ice and iceberg targets, life rafts,
Kisbee ring etc. Targets with strobe lights are available for instance for SAR (Search
and Rescue) training.
Environmental effects
The level of fidelity found in the SeaView®R5 will truly test the
ship handling and navigation skills of the most seasoned deck officer. Beyond day,
dusk and night capabilities the system also includes a highly realistic restricted
visibility feature including rain, snow, transparent and opaque fog as well as wind-
induced waves at the instructors control.
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