Code conversion of Cintos Research Bearing Calculator from Java web applet to HTML web page embedded JavaScript.
The Bearing Calculator © 2010 Michael Davias can be run HERE.
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Here are two simple methods to run this Bearing Calculator HTML/JavaScript web page on a local platform. For both methods, clone or download the repository to a work space directory.
If Python 3 is installed, go to the work space directory containing the bearingCalc.hmtl file and invoke Python 3's http.server with the following command.
> python -m http.server 8000
Then open a web browser and enter URL http://localhost:8000/bearingCalc.html or http://0.0.0.0:8000/bearingCalc.html in the address bar to load the bearingCalc.html web page.
If Visual Studio Code is installed, open the bearingCalc.html file for editing and select Run Without Debugging, then choose a browser from the options offered to load the bearingCalc.html web page.
Although motivation to develop this HTML/JavaScript implementation of the defunct Bearing Calculator Java web applet variant was purely personal, the product is publicly available in keeping with Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license terms and to hopefully revitalize interest in ongoing efforts to substantiate a correlation between Carolina Bay orientations and an hypothesized cosmic impact event at Saginaw Bay, Michigan.
In addition to the disclaimer stipulated within the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license document, the following caveats should be recognized.
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This conversion attempts to preserve functional features, but may introduce measurable computational differences due to documentation errors in reference material and incomplete knowledge of original Java web applet source code.
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The vintage of Bearing Calculator reference material may introduce incorrect and broken hyperlinks.
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The bearing calculation methodology may be obsolete, possiby superseded by more recent Carolina Bay survey data, orientation analysis techniques, and geological/archeological field studies.
Primary references for Bearing Calculator specific methods and functional features are as follows.
[1] http://cintos.org/SaginawManifold/styled-75/styled-78/index.html
[2] http://cintos.org/ge/ForumPosts/GE_Community_Page3.pdf
[3] http://cintos.org/SaginawManifold/styled-75/styled-76/index.html
[4] http://cintos.org/SaginawManifold/styled-75/styled-77/index.html
Secondarily, web page HTML and CSS elements, JavaScript integration with HTML DOM elements and JavaScript object-oriented design patterns were derived from example pages and scripts provided in the GitHub jsRK4 source repository.