Chris, You general outline is excellent. I think your Step #1 may have two (2) modules. One of these will be for the creation of the TIN, while the other is for the in-memory representation of a TIN. But I'll leave this up to you.
I look forward to learning some more about your implementation early next week. Thanks for the continued work and effort to communicate. The Sunburned Surveyor On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I would also like both of our students to outline a > > basic plan for > > their first "module" by next Monday. This can be a > > very short > > document. (Only a couple of paragraphs are needed.) > > Please let me know > > what your module will accomplish and what classes > > and interfaces it > > will contain. I'll review the documents Monday and > > will provide any > > suggestions before our students get to work. I'll be > > looking to Nacho > > and other Portuguese speakers to help with Leandro! > > > > I will then plan on making my first code and > > documentation review on > > Friday, April 25th to check on our students > > progress. > > Do you really mean April 25, i.e. this friday? > > I will have a roadmap written up by this weekend then > posted to the list. Coding will proceed after that. > The TIN project is a very low level library that will > require good data structures and a clean API to be > useful in the long run, therefore, I'll want to get > feedback after I get the basic interfaces squared away > but before I start the real coding. > > Here's a broad outline of what I'm planning on doing: > > Stage 1. > Get the most basic pipeline working: starting from a > collection of points and a collection of lines, make a > TIN object in memory that can be drawn with no > embellishment (no hillshades or elevation color bands > yet). > > Stage 2. > Save the TIN to a file on disk and be able to read > that back into a TIN object. > > Stage 3. > Expand the import side so that points and lines could > be read from a file. I would like to at least get an > import pipeline working for WKT based files and USGS > .bil elevation files. > > Stage 4. > Get hillshades and color elevation bands to work in > the display of the TIN. > > Stage 5. > Make a multi-resolution data structure in which you > could read in the full point set, then query the data > structure to get a TIN at the requested resolution. > > (I'm sure by this point the summer will have ended, > but work will continue in the following direction) > > Stage 6. > 3D display of the TIN and overlays using java opengl > bindings. > > Stage 7. > Get the multi-resolution data structure to be database > backed and queried through WMS. > > Stage 8. > Viewshades. > > Stage 9. > Watersheds. > > > Well, that's what's going through my head at the > moment (aside from finals which should be over with in > the next day or two depending on when I stop polishing > a paper I'm working on). > > --Christopher DeMars > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
