Global Flying Times (GFT)

This project aims to show how a plane flies around the globe - building heavily upon GST.

Running complexity.py

To generate the data needed, complexity.py will run commands like:

python3.13 -m gft 0.0 0.0 500.0 --duration 0.01 --freqLand 64 --freqPlot 8 --freqSimp 8 --GSHHG-resolution c --nAng 9 --NE-resolution 110m --precision 116000.0
python3.13 -m gft 0.0 0.0 500.0 --duration 0.01 --freqLand 128 --freqPlot 16 --freqSimp 16 --GSHHG-resolution c --nAng 17 --NE-resolution 50m --precision 58000.0
python3.13 -m gft 0.0 0.0 500.0 --duration 0.01 --freqLand 256 --freqPlot 32 --freqSimp 32 --GSHHG-resolution c --nAng 33 --NE-resolution 10m --precision 29000.0

Dependencies

GFT requires the following Python modules to be installed and available in your PYTHONPATH.

• cartopy
• fmc
• geojson
• gst
• matplotlib
• numpy
• PIL
• pyguymer3
• shapely

GFT uses some Global Self-Consistent Hierarchical High-Resolution Geography resources and some Natural Earth resources via the cartopy module. If they do not exist on your system then cartopy will download them for you in the background. Consequently, a working internet connection may be required the first time you run GFT.