Hi, Congratulations on all your hard work! I hope you learned a great deal about things beyond simply geotools. Regardless, you have created a nice path of work for others to examine and against which to compare their efforts.
Unfortunately, a real evaluation will have to wait until I have a real connection to the network, --adrian On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 21:20 +0300, Hans Häggström wrote: > Hello, > > The 3D Rendering Pipeline Summer of Code project is now completed, and > ready for final evaluation. > > What is currently implemented is a navigable map (use mouse right > button, left button, and wheel to move around), with a quad-tree based > tile map. The textures for the tiles are rendered to the tiles in the > background, and pieces of existing tile textures are used as previews > wile rendering is ongoing. > > The most significant unimplemented feature is support for elevation > data (so currently the 3D map is flat). Other planned but > unimplemented features are custom 3D model markers, and other 3D > structures for map features. > > Some shortcomings of the current version is slow rendering performance > with large maps (the existing StreamingRenderer that is used seems to > lack optimizations that would let it ignore features outside the area > to be rendered), a relatively high memory requirement with high > resolution tiles (that's why the tiles are set to a relatively low > resolution in the demo), and some minor bugs (the start tiles > sometimes get placeholder textures, and tiles are not always > subdivided enough). > > Screenshot: > http://docs.codehaus.org/download/attachments/76959/Geotools3DRenderer-03-LargerMap.png > > Wiki page with download, installation, and usage instructions: > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/3D+Rendering+Pipeline+for+GeoTools > > > -- Hans Häggström > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
