Point Classes

The Point, OrientedPoint and Satellite classes represent points in 3D space with increasing levels of functionality.

• Point is the base class representing a point with a position in 3D space.

• OrientedPoint extends Point and adds orientation information using quaternions. It can also have a camera attached for scene rendering and perspective control.

• Satellite, finally add to OrientedPoint a description of the satellite motion along its orbit through the use of a TLE and include instructions on how the satellite should be oriented as a functon of time.

Points can be retrieved from the scene via the point function (see below). These classes are seldomly interacted with directly except through the latter function. When we do retrieve them, it is mostly to use the getter methods. For example, when we want the basis vector for the reference frame of an OrientedPoint.