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The topics below are areas where GMAT could use further development but the GMAT team does not have the resources to do the job right. We routinely get requests for these types of items, but they haven't risen to the required priority level to obtain funding and time to work on them. That doesn't mean they're not important. These are things we would like to see in GMAT!
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World Class Graphics
UPDATE: The OpenFramesInterface (OFI) plugin now provides advanced realtime visualizations for GMAT. Feature requests, suggestions, and feedback for the OFI can be sent directly to the GMAT team or via the OFI Issue Board.
GMAT has good graphics, but users need (and expect) great graphics. GMAT needs contributions and efforts that improve/extend GMAT's existing 3-D and 2-D graphics. GMAT does not currently support the following standard functionality used routinely by analysts for design and analysis of trajectories:
- Standard 3D model formats
- Vectors
- Planes
- Sensor cones
- Articulating components
- Ground regions\Overlays
- Access lines
- Footprints/limblines
- Covariance ellipsoids
- Lot's, lot's more.
There are lot's of ways to provide this functionality that should be considered. (NOTE: Licensing issues and/or high license fees may preclude some of these upon further investigation)
- Extend existing graphics components
- Interface to STK
- Interface to Celestia
- Interface to Edge by METECS, LLC.
- Interface to VESTA
- Interface to Cesium (licensed using Apache which is consistent with GMAT license!)
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Multi-Platform Interfaces
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