Hi all, in the next few weeks I'm going to be trying to improve the 3-d output of my analysis application from this:
http://www.debrief.info/safe/3d.gif to something more like this http://www.debrief.info/safe/Debrief_2002_3D.jpg Yes, I know I've got a long way to go, and obviously there are a whole string of issues to overcome along the way, but the first problem to overcome is how to construct the constinuous surface plane. I'm quite happy producing the grid, and can see that adding the diagonal line gives a degree of "hatching" to the surface, but I'm stuck on how to make it infinite - without making thinks extremely processor inefficient. I could just dream up a magical scale figure, of 10 say, multiply my data area by this, and create the surface of this size, but I suspect that at the horizon it may just show the left-and-right edges of the surface. There's a chance that the application which improved the "2002" image just generated the lines necessary to fill the screen, or that it wasn't a dynamic image - I don't know. Thanks in advance for any support, Ian Mayo =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
