Abstract
The paper describes a joint development project of the Office of Research and Development, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Projects Division, FHWA Region Nine in Denver, Colorado, and the University of Colorado.
The project has concentrated on the development of an implementable software package for producing perspective views of the design highway system for inclusion as a subsystem of TIES (Total.Integrated Engineering System), a software package concept of the Bureau of Public Roads.
The generation of perspective views of a design highway shows great promise for use by the highway design engineer, the landscape architect and the general public. Perspective views generated from design data can be used by designers to aid in eliminating unsafe features and to visualize the final view which will be seen by the driver.
An animation movie, simulating a driver’s experience for an actual design project is described The movie was made by photographing the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) of the interactive graphics terminal at the University of Colorado.
Results of the study point to increasing use of computer animation and perspective plots in the highway design field.
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Feeser, L.J., Cutrell, J.D. (1971). Perspective Views and Computer Animation in Highway Engineering. In: Parslow, R.D., Green, R.E. (eds) Advanced Computer Graphics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4606-7_19
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