strategy

The strategy demonstration uses POV-Ray. Two images, strat1 and strat2 (see strat1.pov, Appendix C and strat2.pov, Appendix D) were created. The first deals with a targeted search like Project Phoenix, the second with an all-sky search like Project Argus. A method of symbolically representing the telescopes was required. The programmer chose cones since they naturally correspond to a telescope's field of view. Also, a new implimentation of textures was required because POV-Ray treats textures differently from OpenGL. Once the components were created, several tests were needed to optimize their arrangement.

Figure 4: The image for a targeted search.