Vortex is a KMG Afterburner at Thorpe Park, an amusement park in Chertsey, Surrey, England. It was installed in the Lost City area of the park in 2001. It opened on 25 May, seven weeks after the opening of the 2001 season.
Riders sit in seats arranged in a circle facing inwards, there are eight gondolas with four seats on each. After the over-the-shoulder restraints have been lowered and checked, the platform lowers. The seats then begin to rotate, and after approximately one rotation the ride begins to swing. The ride swings back and forth, swinging up to a maximum height of 20 metres and angle of 120 degrees at 15rpm. After several full height swings, the ride then begins to slow before coming to a halt, the platform is then raised and riders fast track and single rider questions operate.
Vortex is a high-fidelity, realtime physics engine developed by CM Labs Simulations that simulates rigid body dynamics, collision detection, contact determination, and dynamic reactions. Vortex adds accurate physical motion and interactions to objects in visual-simulation applications for operator training, mission planning, product concept validation, vehicle and robotics testing, haptics devices, immersive and virtual reality (VR) environments.
The Vortex C++ SDK has several modules that simulate physics-based particles, sensors, floating bodies, cable systems, grasping, and wheeled and tracked vehicles. Developers integrate their projects into 3D visualization frameworks such as OpenSceneGraph (OSG) and Vega Prime, and deploy them in environments that contain software-in-the-loop (SIL), MATLAB, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and motion platform components.
Vortex is developed by CM Labs Simulations Inc., a private company established in Montreal in 2001. CM Labs was created when the management of MathEngine Canada Inc. purchased a portion of the business from MathEngine PLC, the parent company in the UK. MathEngine Canada Inc. was originally the research and development team responsible for creating the Karma physics simulation engine for computer games.
Vortex may refer to any of these roller coasters:
Destiny or Fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual.
Although often used interchangeably, the words "fate" and "destiny" have distinct connotations.
Fate is an action role-playing video game franchise developed by WildTangent.
Fate commonly refers to destiny, a predetermined course of events.
Fate may also refer to:
Don't understand why it has gone
When your eyes are full of tears
When you cry but no one hears it
Something's waiting there outside my door
Something waits for me
Morning – when you see the red sunrise
Evening – when the Earth is cold as ice
Calling – I am calling out your name
Help me – I'm a loser in this game
She's my hope and she's my life
She's the one I just can die for
She's the symbol I have lost
It' too late, I've paid its worth
Something's waiting there outside my door
Something waits for me
Morning – when you see the red sunrise
Evening – when the Earth is cold as ice
Calling – I am calling out your name
Help me – I'm a loser in this game
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Morning – when you see the red sunrise
Evening – when the Earth is cold as ice
Calling – I am calling out your name
Help me – I'm a loser in this game