A Painted Ocean

Devlog

• Version 0.6
  January 29, 2023 by Neil Thapen

  The main new feature is that long-distance travel requires much less babysitting. When the wind turns foul for your course the ship stays on the nearest tack and continues in accelerated time, and you... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.5b
  January 31, 2022 by Neil Thapen

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  New features: There is now rain and fog. The sailing model has been tuned to address the issue raised here . In particular, fore-and-aft sails produce less thrust. Also the ship is a little lighter, a... Continue reading

  
• Sailing test version
  December 29, 2021 by Neil Thapen

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  This update has not changed the main file, painted.zip, which is still at version 0.5a. It adds a test version which exposes a couple of new parameters controlling the sailing aerodynamics, for anyone... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.5a released
  December 19, 2019 by Neil Thapen

  In this version: The sailing model is tuned to match historical performance, at least in low to moderate winds. Wind now affects the spars and hull, not just the sails. Spars and sails do not break so... Continue reading

  
• Historical data
  November 22, 2019 by Neil Thapen

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  Some quantitative historical sources: W. Froude, "The Resistance of Ships" https://archive.org/details/resistanceships00frougoog This records drag experiments on a wooden ship, from 1871. The numbers... Continue reading

  
• Release and plans
  September 22, 2019 by Neil Thapen

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  This project was started in 2011, under the working title "Fifth Rate", as a prototype to explore two things: how does sailing physics work; and what is a control scheme that does not have the immedia... Continue reading