Oscar Garcia.
ABSTRACT
A program for simulating the sawing of logs, using interactive
computer graphics, is described.
KEYWORDS: Simulation, sawing, computer graphics, saw pattern.
INTRODUCTION
SEESAW is a program which simulates the sawing of pruned logs, using interactive computer graphics. It runs on a relatively inexpensive stand-alone microcomputer.
Information about the application background, data acquisition, and preliminary results is provided in a companion paper (Park 1987). A prototype of SEESAW was briefly described before (Forest Research Institute 1984, p.34-35). This paper provides a general description of the program's operation and capabilities, as well as some hardware and software details.
The black and white figures included in this paper are dot-matrix reproductions of the screen images. Accordingly, many details that are clear in the eight-colour display are obscured in these figures. The resolution (or number of dots), however, corresponds exactly to that of the display.