Automobile traffic accident simulation using three-dimensional computer graphics

The main purpose of this study is to develop graphics appropriate to an automobile accident simulator. The graphics implementation of the dynamics is to be developed to aid various and different observers, investigators or students in developing an understanding of the accident events. The simulator will be used to graphically display a traffic accident that occurred about a mile east of Farwell, Texas, on U.S. 60 at about 3:30 a.mu on January 21, 1994 [2, 15]. The accident resulted in the deaths of three young men. The development of the simulation will be acconq)hshed through the use of a mathematical model that simulates the effects of a collision between two vehicles. The mathematical model that is used in this simulation is based on physical laws, but is greatly simplified.