Grizly Roller Coaster Simulation

I was the author of Coaster! the screen saver, wayy back in 1993. This video is a warm up to restart the project.

I used original roller coaster design drawings, extracted a plan (top view) and an elevation (profile) and typed it all into files. then I wrote some software to read this data and create the coaster geometry. The code I wrote would go ahead every 10 feet thru the data and create track segments and a trestle, cross braces in 3D.

A second piece of code read these files, and created the camera motion.along the track. That code understands the chain or lift portion of the ride, and then goes to gravity mode. The major portion of the ride is camera in gravity.
(My later versions accounted for roll, bank)
I used Euler integration for acceleration, (track (sin)slope * gravity) and it apporoximates the ride well.
rdawson16 AT hotmail bla bla bla

I am thinking of a respin of this project, and looking for your approval.

Thanks

strangluv

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• roller
• coaster

[JACM4466]

no limits is better!

[maxeverett]

Is this the one at Kings Dominion, or the one at Great America?

[NitroCrime]

nice but try edeting the z angle for you camera and the speed (to fast change)

[GinaMarieD]

OOh My Dog ! so you Wrote it all the code frame to frame huh! it is WOW you brainiac!