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recent additions

31 September 2000
Added captions to all the Borkum 1999 and Gold Coast 2000 pictures. Re-ordered then so that they make a bit of a 'story'. I cropped some excess sky and sand off the Gold Coast pictures, so they download more quickly.

30 September 2000
Added huge new set of pictures. See Borkum 1999 includes photos of most buggies at the 1999 European finals.

30 September 2000
Moved from madasafish.com to oocities.com. Madasafish got very slow.

25 August 2000
Couple more links. Picture on main page.

16 August 2000
Corrections and picture in glossary.

07 August 2000
Added more links.

23 July 2000
Added links page.

18 July 2000
picture gallary.

18 July 2000
moved from site from Compuserve to Madasafish, because you get unlimited free space!

21 June 2000
Tested on Netscape 4.6. Looked horrid. Spent the evening making it better.

19 June 2000
Added the 3-point turn.

19 June 2000
Added the tack turn.

8 June 2000
Added the beach guide.

18 April 2000
Re-styled the whole site.

9 April 2000
Added techniques, scrub jibe, flat turn, top turn, new glossary

work in progress

I am developing new animations so that I can explain techniques like top turns, flat turns and down turns and tacks where kite buggy interactions are critical. I have modeled a side-view buggy and a pilot-view kite. I am considering making it into a full blows 3D applet.

This isn't just an animation it is a buggy simulation. The acceleration, skid kite angle, relative wind, forces etc. are used to calculate the buggie's path. The individual animations are made of from 'scripts' or pilot inputs. For example:
ApplySteer until full lock at a rate of 3 degrees per frame them straighten up at a rate of 5 degrees per frame.