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From: David Loewenstern <loewenst@******.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Smartguns...
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 21:08:16 EST
>>>>>[

That's not how I imagined the smartgun at all. The book leads me to
believe that it works by a proprioceptive method: i.e., the smartgun
sensor figures out where the gun is (relative to your body) and the
direction the gun is pointing, and derives the angles between that
direction and the direction you are looking, and puts a corresponding
"+" on your goggle screen. There is no camera, but there may be an
internal gyroscope or two. I believe modern (20th century) autopilots
use a similar method for figuring out angle of ascent.


]<<<<< Quincunx <loewenst@****.rutgers.edu> (Thu Jan 14 21:08:05 EST
1993)

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