Hello,
I am working on my senior project in the geology department of my university, an
investigation of fracture networks in rocks. I'm trying to write a Java3D program to
help visualize these fracture networks and (more importantly) give a quantitative
analysis of the shapes produced (such as surface area to volume ratio). I'm new to
Java and to working with 3d, but even so I feel that I may be using the wrong tool to
tackle this problem. I'm hoping members of this list can tell whether what I want to
do is possible with Java3d, and if it's the best (or close to best) tool for the task.
And if so, where I should look to get started. I think it is likely that there is
perhaps some mathematical package out there which could handle this stuff just as
well, but Java3D has obvious distribution advantages.
So, for instance, given two planes (flat, 2-dimensional, defined by 4 points), I would
like to find the intersection, defined as a line (2 points?) between those two. Then,
by collecting a series of intersections between planes, use those points to form a
new, trimmed shape3d. I guess it's kind of culling a shape? Getting rid of the excess
pieces of my planes, for viewing purposes. I don't really care how I do this, as long
as it's done.
More importantly, I would just like to be able to find these values so that I can
determine the shape. If I can define these shapes without using any of the visual
aspects of Java3D, the least I'd like to be able to do is show the end result. In
other words, it would be neat for the user to be able to move around the planes,
adjusting their actual positions, and then specifying which planes to use for making
the new 3d object, but that's not necessary.
Also, my first stumbling block was actually trying to get the "new" geometry (location
information, I guess is what I want) from a Shape3D once it has been added to a scene
graph and moved around (I did get that far, at least).
Any insight or advice would be very, very much appreciated!
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Thanks,
Cristina
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