Re: [Therion] Turning LIDAR point clouds into cave maps

2023-12-11 Thread Julian Todd
If you can export your file as a las/laz file (or it also takes PolyCam's zip file of a laz file), then I have a place where you can preview it using the potree.org software. https://las.nix.how/ Try using the shortcode: c0987 to see a scan that was made underwater using photogrammetry. The

Re: [Therion] Tunnel to therion conversion

2022-07-05 Thread Julian Todd
So, two things here. The morphing of old drawings to new data could have been automated if the process of sub-selecting from the whole survex dataset could be formalized. Only by survex processing the whole cave system and then snipping out the cave section you want, instead of compiling from

Re: [Therion] Tunnel to therion conversion

2022-06-29 Thread Julian Todd
Wookey, The TunnelX program already has an SVG exporter that exports splines with the right control points here: https://github.com/CaveSurveying/tunnelx/blob/master/src/SvgGraphics2D.java#L267 This would save a lot of effort re-implementing a TunnelX file parser when it's got one already, so

[Therion] cave survey drawing up in VR

2021-05-23 Thread Julian Todd
Hi folks, I've got a pretty neat system for drawing up cave surveys in Virtual Reality now. (I showed it to Wookey today, and he assures me it's not too off-topic for this list.) It's networked, so two or more people can be in the same drawing session and work with each other. There's a short

[Therion] 3D scanning project of Google

2014-06-08 Thread Julian Todd
I applied for one of those phones for use in this project: http://www.housahedron.co.uk/42-2/scanning-and-drawing/ Unfortunately, they didn't give me one. Anyway, it seems to have the same capabilities as a kinect. Probably not so good for caves. ***But that's just data acquisition. I

[Therion] New release of Cave Converter

2013-03-18 Thread Julian Todd
Why don't you keep the code and the docs onto bitbucket -- where I keep the TunnelX code? https://bitbucket.org/goatchurch/tunnelx Then all your bug tracking stuff would get done automatically, For that matter, why isn't the Therion code in some place like there too? I've been quite happy

[Therion] ICS 2013 Brno

2013-01-23 Thread Julian Todd
I've got my ticket now. http://www.speleo2013.com/registration/overview/UNITED%20KINGDOM I'll probably be bringing along survey posters made by tunnelx as well as my laptop. That's the limit of what I can do. What will Therion be doing there? Probably buying a stand. I'm hoping it's an

[Therion] wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Julian Todd
Try some references to compass points articles. http://www.chaos.org.uk/survex/cp/index.htm JT On 13 December 2011 09:04, Xavier Robert wrote: > Hi Martin, > > If this is what you want, you can find mapping project on my caving club > web site : > > * for the Gouffre Jean-Bernard System : >

[Therion] WikiProject_Caves

2011-11-28 Thread Julian Todd
If any of you also have some time, you might also enjoy(!) the on-going discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_November_22#Template:Infobox_ukcave Short summary: I gave up trying to put cave location coordinates into the {infobox cave} template,

[Therion] displaying models in a browser

2010-12-20 Thread Julian Todd
VRML is a dead format. There's nothing that is effectively replacing it. WebGL is showing promise (partly because it's based on OpenGL, which is *the* graphics standard, rather than some funky invented one). Do these demos work for you? http://khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Demo_Repository Web

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-16 Thread Julian Todd
As people have realized, getting cavers to understand/use version control systems at all is incredibly difficult. While a distributed version control would be the best answer -- especially in the field -- they are impossible for normal people to use. It will go wrong immediately, and people will

[Therion] wikipedia and cave surveying

2007-01-31 Thread Julian Todd
Hi folks, Anyone out there want to join me in trying to organize the caving content for wikipedia?? There's quite a bit of material floating around. Get an idea by drilling down from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Caves_by_country The problems include the lack of a special page

[Therion] That other cave drawing programmer in Prague

2006-12-02 Thread Julian Todd
To whom it may concern. Aren't there a whole bunch of Therion programmers in Prague whom I've never met? It seems I am washing up in Prague tonight (hopefully) and will be around until Tuesday. Can I meet + buy a beer for/talk cave surveying with anyone there in town? Yours, Julian T.

[Therion] wikipedia of therion

2006-06-29 Thread Julian Todd
Hello, I've noticed that this here Therion probably fits within the bounds of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28software%29 Anyone thought of typing it in? If we cover them all then we can have "List of Cave surveying software" onto the wikipedia, which might make a

[Therion] zoomify

2006-04-06 Thread Julian Todd
John Pybus wrote: > Nice idea Julian. What does your system need on the server? Are you > making the code available? > > Yes, if it can be generalized into a utility we can use for this and for other purposes that we could embed in our application. Behind it technically is OpenMesa,

[Therion] zoomify

2006-04-06 Thread Julian Todd
Wolfgang Zillig wrote: > Hello Julian, > > it seems that I don't understand what you want. Do you want to show the cave > model under fixed viewpoint (animated gif, mpeg...) or shall the user be abel > to turn and rotate the model like he wants? Do you also need to include a > digital elevation

[Therion] zoomify

2006-04-06 Thread Julian Todd
Wolfgang Zillig wrote: > Why don't you use VRML? > > Wolfgang > > VRML is dead. I had cave surveys in it and it was never satisfying. The next thing might be: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/06/x3d.html. Ultimately, computer images are 2D, and the fuss about making high frame

[Therion] zoomify

2006-04-06 Thread Julian Todd
I just tried to get zoomify to work on my webpage for a cave drawing. It only works for jpegs, not pngs. Is that right? Meanwhile, I have some technology for generating 3D renderings on a webserver and showing it through a normal browser without a plug-in. If anyone has the time and