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This is a project for a museum to demonstrate a simulation of a 1940's to 1960's vintage radar, including the Chain Home radar from early World War 2, marine radar, and air traffic control radar
The project will be implemented on a Geekom A8 Max 32 GB RAM AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics We need to render to the Radeon 780M Graphics GPU
Tech Stack: We are using C++20, OpenGL 3.3 Core, GLFW, GLAD, FreeType, GDAL (libgdal-dev) Compiler: is g++ (Ubuntu 15.2.0-4ubuntu4) 15.2.0
FreeType is the text type we use GDAL is used for reading the LIDAR/ENC chart files GLFW (graphics library framework) open-source, multi-platform library used to manage windows GLAD (Multi-Language GL/GLES/WGL/GLX Loader-Generator) Loads the pointers to OpenGL functions (like glDrawArrays or glCompileShader)
PostgreSQL is installed. Database: radar. User: radar. Password: radar. User has full privileges on database radar. Table is target_data.
Operating system details:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 25.10 Release: 25.10 Codename: questing
Use cmake for building.
I will be using SSH from Windows to write code and check with claude. You may compile the code during an SSH session. Please do not try to run the code during SSH session. I will run the code while physically using the Geekom.
Please add MIT license header to each file Please add Author: Mark Allyn to each file Use snake_case for variables and PascalCase for classes use #pragma once Use // for single line comments use /* */ for multiple block comments spanning multiple lines avoid using auto
Summary of project:
This is a museum exhibit displaying and providing interaction of vintage 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's radars. A key objective is to provide interaction and viewing of the frustrations of using radars in that era. The different radars are:
Scopes in the right panel
- A-scope for Chain Home Radar in the 1940's (first radar and could be tricky)
- A-scope for marine radar in the 1950's (Before PPI radar. Was a bit tedious to operate
- PPI scope for marine traffic control (uses beam sweeping in all 360 degrees of rotation; Easier to use than a scope
- PPI scope for air traffic control; similar to PPI scope for marine, but with different range
- PPI scope on board a boat. Shows how movement of a boat affects the radar display
- Precision Approach Radar (Two scopes; one showing horizontal movement of a plane in the glide path toward the runway, and the other showing vertical movement of a plane as it glides vertically down to the runway.
Text window in the left panel for descriptions of the scopes and a listing of controls
Controls to affect the behavior of the scopes; (these first implemented using keyboard strokes; later when physical controls are completed, the keyboard controls will be removed.