Aerobel provides off-the-shelf and customised realtime visual systems for Ship Bridge Simulators.

For example, the company recently upgraded - as a turnkey system - the realtime visuals of a Ship Bridge Simulator in Belgium. This 5-channel visual system provides:

• a field of view of ~225 degrees
  
• high fidelity geospecific ports with 30Hz frame rate at 1024x768 pixel resolution
  
• realistic sea with fully-responsive dynamic objects (eg ships & buoys)
  
• control of global sea state and locally-varying sea conditions
  
• control of time of day, sun angle & met visibility
  
• quadraphonic sound
  
• reliable communications with the host computer.
  
  

Aerobel's visual systems are based on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware & software tools together with customised software to provide Customers with the following benefits:

• reduced initial procurement cost & whole-life cost
  
• maximum flexibility
  
• protected software investment through the use of open format software
  
• significant growth potential (eg for increased database complexity and higher resolution displays).
  
  

Aerobel's Ship Bridge visual systems incorporate key features such as:

• anti-aliased, fully-phototextured out-the-window views at high frame rates
  
• detailed ships/entities with smooth level of detail switching
  
• smooth dynamic ship motion with collision detection even with a low update rate from the host computer
  
• spatially-varying dynamic sea with control of global sea state and local amplitudes
  
• dynamic response of ships/buoys over whole sea
  
• bow waves & stern wakes and directional wakes for tugs
  
• dynamic components (eg lights, radars, cranes, lock gates)
  
• wind-induced effects (eg smoke/exhaust plumes & flags)
  
• changing ship signals automatically from day to night
  
• dynamic signals on-shore (controlled by an external signalling model).
  
  

Aerobel also provides:

• database converters (eg to import proprietary data formats into the COTS 3D modelling tools) for the generation/modification of geospecific databases & their associated radar displays
  
• database modelling services
  
• after-action review facilities
  
• DIS-compliance
  
• desktop PC-based visual systems.
  

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