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Clive Robinson •
@ ALL,
Is that this realy that stunning?
While the knowledge is perhaps formally “categorized” to some stage, it’s typically within the public area to anybody who works within the arms business or occurs to look at You-Tube or comparable.
Arms producers wish to promote their product and they’re going to present the knowledge on to a severe purchaser or not directly by way of “motion footage” of the automobile being put by way of it’s paces.
With {a photograph} or video and a recognized refrence marker you’ll be able to calculate these pretty simply. I do know mannequin makers who do that with previous black and white pictures and movies of railway locomotives that are nolonger in existence.
A good friend confirmed me how they’d calculated the wheel diameter from which all the opposite measurments have been derived, from a person standing within the image holding a stokers shovel, for which all of the measurments have been recognized.
There’s a well-known digital world with buildings, vehicles, trains and boats the place, people have spent posibly 1000’s of hours of their very own time constructing the digital fashions.
One other well-known “House Recreation” that NASA is thought to have helped with[1] and study the science / enginering in a enjoyable method for folks to get to be good at varied issues is named “KSP” or simply Kerbal’s. It makes use of the “Unity” physics engine for very real looking orbital manovering and is greater than a bit nerve wracking to play. However the KSP engine and system additionally alows “mods” folks have spent hours creating not simply extremely real looking components however missions as properly[2].
So sure, any supply of knowledge is prone to find yourself in these video games or extra appropriately simulators.
The actual fact the “paperwork” is perhaps clasiffied doesn’t of nacessity imply the “info” is definitely categorized, a mistake many journalists ought to perceive just a little higher…
Oh as for these French figures, sure for some cause the French and Turks use not 360degrees in a circle however 400mils… One thing that may be an actual nusance on surveying gear that has been “Frenchified” for some cause…
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/know-how/2014/might/22/kerbal-space-program-why-nasa-minecraft
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