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Indy Racers

by Nicholas Kasner

Abstract

As a novice programmer and a racing enthusiast, I embarked on a semester long project in (Visual) VPython to create an animation of a racecar moving around a superspeedway. A distinguishing component of the completed program is the ability of the user to toggle between two views, one from above the track and another from inside the moving vehicle. This narrative describes not only an explanation of the premise behind the project, but the mathematics behind racing and the coding involved in the featured program, "indyracers".

Here is a picture of a racecar.

Here is a screenshot of my RTICA...

...and a depiction of the camera views in the final program.

Here is a link to my Seminar Presentation.

Here is a link to my Preproposal.

Here is a link to my Final Proposal and its corresponding .tex file.

Here is a link to my Narrative and its corresponding .tex file.

Here is a link to my Final Presentation.