Pete, Hi,
thanks for the info. Now a more basic question, Can u
recommend general informational site/link on the terms
you have used - bear with me, I am absolutely new to
this field, but DEM files interest me a lot.
"DTED"
"ArcInfo Binary"
Please help! :)
thanks,
kishore
--- Pete Tinker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use NIMAMUSE (free at least to US citizens) to
> convert the DTED data to
> ArcInfo Binary format. The result has the
> non-geometry information stripped
> off, and it loads VERY quickly because it's binary.
> Read it in, compute
> normals, stripify it, add texture coordinates if you
> like, and you're done. I
> think it took me five lines of code (after I read
> the file, that is).
>
> kishore puvvada wrote:
>
> > hello,
> > I am new to j3d API and understand DEM even less.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend DEM loader APIs that they
> have
> > used? I tried using Portfolio from NCSA
> >
>
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~srp/Java3D/portfolio/index.html
> > to load a DEM image but having some problems.
> >
> > I came across another viewer API at:
> >
>
http://www.geogr.uni-jena.de/~p6taug/demviewer/demv.html
> >
> > But I haven't been able to understand (it uses
> another
> > sw called VisAD) how to use it in a plain j3d
> program.
> >
> > I have specific questions in case someone has used
> > either of the above. If you have used any other
> APIs,
> > I would like to hear from you.
> >
> > Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
> > thanks,
> > Kishore
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