Special Topics:Modeling and Simulation

Several stages in a dive are shown here using Callaghan's diving simulator. The simulator allows the user to choose the type of dive (forward, backward, inward), various parameters including the height and weight of diver, takeoff angle, takeoff speed, and times at which the diver begins and ends the moment-of-intertia changing maneuvers (tuck, pike, straight, lineup, and save). It then solves the differential equations and a geomview mannequin executes the actual dive. More information in found in Callaghan's Summer Institute report, 1993.

How to make it: the diver was modelled using Geomview.

Image created: summer, 1993

Copyright © summer, 1993 by The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
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Created: Thu Jun 25 15:09:38 CDT 1998 --- Last modified: Thu Jun 25 15:09:38 CDT 1998