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   5 /** \mainpage SimGear
   6  * Simulation, Visualization, and Game development libraries.
   7
   8  * \section intro Introduction
   9  *
  10  * SimGear is a collection of libraries which provide a variety of
  11  * functionality useful for building simulations, visualizations, and
  12  * even games.  All the SimGear code is designed to be portable across
  13  * a wide variety of platforms and compilers.  It has primarily been
  14  * developed in support of the FlightGear project, but as development
  15  * moves forward, we are generalizing the code to make more of it
  16  * useful for other types of applications.
  17  *
  18  * Some of the functionality provide includes
  19  *
  20  * - Compiler and platform abstractions for many tricky differences.
  21  *   (compiler.h)
  22  *
  23  * - A whole earth tiling/indexing scheme.  (SGBucket)
  24  *
  25  * - A console debugging output scheme that tracks severity and
  26  *   category that can be completely compiled out for a final build release.
  27  *   (logstream.hxx)
  28  *
  29  * - Code to manage "real" time (SGTime), time zones (SGTimeZone), and
  30  *   millesecond time differences (SGTimeStamp).
  31  *
  32  * - Code to calculate accurate positions of sun, moon, stars, and
  33  *   planets for a given time, date, season, earth location, etc.
  34  *   (SGEphemeris)
  35  *
  36  * - Code to render a realistic sky dome, cloud layers, sun, moon,
  37  *   stars, and planets all with realistic day/night/sunset/sunrise
  38  *   effects.  Includes things like correct moon phase, textured moon,
  39  *   sun halo, etc. (SGSky is built on top of SGCloudLayer ...)
  40  *
  41  * - Simple serial (SGSerial), file (SGFile), socket (SGSocket), and
  42  *   UDP socket (SGSocketUDP) I/O abstractions.
  43  *
  44  * - Code to calculate magnetic variation. (SGMagVar)
  45  *
  46  * - A variety of classes and functions for interpolation tables
  47  *   (SGInterpTable), least squares computation (leastsqs.hxx), 3D
  48  *   point/vectors (Point3D), 3D polar math and conversions (polar3d.hxx),
  49  *   WGS-84 math and conversions (sg_geodesy.hxx), random number abstraction
  50  *   (sg_random.h), STL conglomerates for common list types (sg_types.hxx),
  51  *   and other vector and linear algebra routines (vector.hxx)
  52  *
  53  * - An abstraction to hide platform dependent path naming schemes. (SGPath)
  54  *
  55  * - A C++ streams wrapper to handle compress input/output streams.
  56  *   (sg_gzifstream)
  57  *
  58  * - An optimized "property manager" which associates ascii property
  59  *   names with their corresponding value.  This can be a great way to build
  60  *   loose linkages between modules, or build linkages/connections that can
  61  *   be determined from config files or at runtime.  (SGPropertyNode)
  62  *   Also included is a set of functions to dump the property tree into a
  63  *   standard xml file and subsequently read/parse a standard xml file and
  64  *   rebuild the associated property tree.  (props_io.hxx)
  65  *
  66  * - Scene management and drawing routines:
  67  *   - material property management
  68  *   - object management
  69  *   - terrain tile management and paging
  70  *   - sky dome rendering (with ephemeral objects)
  71  *
  72  * - Code to handle screen dumps (screen-dump.hxx) and ultra-hires
  73  *   tile rendered screen dumps (tr.h)
  74  *
  75  * - A sound effects manager.  (SGSoundMgr, SGSimpleSound, SGSound)
  76  *
  77  * - A threading abstraction.  (SGThread)
  78  *
  79  * - A simple but highly functional XML parser that interfaces nicely
  80  *   with the property manager.  (easyxml.hxx)
  81
  82  * \section supports Supported Platforms
  83  * SimGear has been built on the following platforms:
  84  *
  85  *   - Linux (x86)
  86  *   - Windows (MSVC, Cygwin, Mingwin)
  87  *   - SGI (native compilers)
  88  *   - Mac OS X
  89  *   - FreeBSD
  90
  91  * \section depends Dependencies
  92  *
  93  * SimGear depends on several other open source packages.  These must
  94  * be installed before SimGear can be installed:
  95  *
  96  *   - glut and opengl
  97  *   - plib (http://plib.sf.net)
  98  *   - metakit
  99  *   - zlib
 100  *   - libjpeg (optional)
 101  *   - pthread (optional)
 102
 103  * \section license Licensing
 104  *
 105  * SimGear is licensed under the terms of the LGPL
 106
 107  */
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