Applet Usage Instructions: InfiniteFlight.class

Disclaimer

I am providing this applet "as-is," without accepting any responsibility for the effects it may have on your computer, network, or livelihood. Because I am not a full time author of freeware Java applets, I cannot offer you any significant technical support. If you decide to use this applet in your web site, I would be pleased to be attributed, and to have my site linked to--but this is not at all necessary. Do not charge money for this applet, as it is intended to be freely distributed. Include this documentation--and, in particular, this disclaimer--in any distribution of this applet.

Introduction

InfiniteFlight is a rolling fractal terrain applet; it generates a continuous strip of terrain in a specialized thread, while its main thread lights the terrain and renders it using one of three projections: perspective, isometric, or orthographic. The terrain lighting corresponds roughly to the time of day as read from the host computer's real time clock.

Click the display window with the mouse to cycle between view modes.

Instructions

Place the class files contained in this package into your web space--that is, into a directory that is publicly accessible via the World Wide Web. Usually, it is easiest to place the class files into the same directory that contains the referring page. In the HTML source file of the page into which you wish to place the applet instance, add the following lines of code:

<APPLET CODE="InfiniteFlight.class" WIDTH=256 HEIGHT=256>
</APPLET>

Note that the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters must be set to 256.

Example

For this example, I used the following HTML snippet:

<APPLET CODE="InfiniteFlight.class" WIDTH=256 HEIGHT=256>
</APPLET>