Hydrostatics Content
Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 11:06 - Hydrostatics
I initially wrote a hydrostatics program in Excel for my first design ever (YP design). I did this because when I made a small change in the hull shape, I wanted to immidiately know the effects on center of buoyancy. I was also able to "balance" CG and CB automatically.
Since then, I wrote another spreadsheet for a specific sailboat, but have now made my spreadsheet for sailboats in general.
The problem with it is:
1) it's ugly
2) it's hard to use
3) there is no "help"
Well, I'm probably going to redo the spreadsheet, and then rewrite the program in another language.
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( 2.8 / 35 )Naval Arch Primer Content
Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 11:01 - Naval Arch Primer
My Naval Arch Primer currently has three entries
1) Ship Geometry
2) Resistance I
3) Resistance II
I plan on writing next a buoyancy and hydrostatics primer. Furthermore, I think I could make the Resistance Primers better too. I will rework that content soon.
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( 2.8 / 24 )Yacht Design Content
Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 10:57 - Yacht Design
My over-arching plans are to create a flexible yacht design system for use on multiple platforms.
The use of the system includes preliminary design and then includes an initial refining using about one or two loops of the design spiral.
Furthermore, the content for the system is stored in a very flexible way using XML files. I have come up with a few data formats for various parts of the project, all of which will be posted.
Initially, I am calling this the Yacht Design System (YDS). I may make it all in Java and even post the program to be run on-line. Plans also include access to a very large database of yachts (again using XML).
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