NumSim

Installation Instructions

1. Install Octave.: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
2. Download the nurbs Pacakge from: http://octave.sourceforge.net/nurbs/index.html
3. At Octave Command Prompt type ( Same directory as the downloaded file)
   1. pkg install nurbs-version.tar.gz (put version number in place of version)
   2. pkg load nurbs

Code layout

The code is structured as follows:

1. A data store class will act as a repository for GIS information. This will be in charge of data storage, caching and retrieval. The data itself may be

   • Unstructured (E.g. Land value information)
   • Structured (Altitude data) @akulsareen

   In both cases an interpolation scheme is needed to answer queries that don't lie at points. This will have to be a fast method of the class. @akashrajkn

2. A cost function which will return the cost of a track represented by a BSpline. The arguments to the cost function will be the control vertices and other parameters.

3. A solver function which optimizes the cost

4. A visualization tool to show the curve superimposed on the GIS data.

Documentation

Data Store API

BSpline API (Octave toolkit)

Cost function documentation

Visualization API