On Sunday 02 March 2008, Hamish wrote: > Benjamin wrote: > > > As far as I am aware, the term "extrusion" is pretty well defined > > > as the operation of extending an object in 3D space by "pulling > > > it out" with a predefined bearing and length. This would convert a > > > point to a line, a line to a plane and a polygon to, well, a > > > polygon with a volume, I guess. > > > > > > Personally, I'd be more in favour of wrapping a little script > > > "v.points.to.3d" around v.transform. For the beginners' sake. > > Dylan: > > Well from that 'angle' I think that it makes sense not to use > > v.extrude. > > v.points.to.3d seems like a fine choice. > > 'til now we have manged to keep the "."s in official modules to a max > of two. > > see previous discussion: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/13714 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/13739 > > > v.to.3dpoints or v.points.3d?
Right-- better to stick to established conventions. Any name is ok with me. v.points.3d sounds good. > It doesn't match v.to.rast,v.to.rast3 naming, but I think v.to.points3 > would make it too close to v.to.points which is another task > completely. > But it is not so far from what v.to.rast3 does, so maybe not so bad. > (shrug) > > to get a nifty instant prefab wrapper script do: > v.transform --script > > > Changing topic slightly, how about adding a -z flag to v.to.points for > 3D lines? (no DB column involved) > sounds like a useful option. cheers, Dylan > Hamish > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
