Hi Syd The idea is to have support for proper 3D meshes/volumes, not just 2.5D geometries. The initial work should introduce interface for 3D renderers (somehow similar to 2D renderers we have now) allowing generation of arbitrary meshes and associated materials from input data (which could be 2D geometries, 2.5D geometries or 3D geometries) - to create e.g. buildings extruded from their footprint, tree objects from points or underground pipes from linestring geometries. In the initial work we may not have support for reading true 3D geometries from data sources like PostGIS, but that should not be a problem to add at some point later when the 3D rendering framework is in place.
Regards Martin On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Syd Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question on the 3D that was proposed in the grant for the use with > QT 3D. Am i wrong to think this is really oriented towards what some people > call 2.5D (terrain model as shown in the proposal example) or will there be > support for 3D that will be able to display 3D meshes or volumes like those > available in Grass and display in programs such as NVIZ and Paraview or more > advanced commercial software. As geophysicists we are always trying to look > at things under the ground not on top. > > thanks > > Syd > > -- > > Syd (Sipke) Visser, P.Geo. > President, Snr. Geophysicist/Geologist > > Tel: 1 (604) 582-1100 > Cell: 1 (604) 813-1440 > [email protected] > www.sjgeophysics.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
