Re: ElevationGrid

[Rikk Carey <rikk@wasabisoft.com>]

At 07:31 PM 3/11/98 -0500, The Casteels wrote:
>
>
>Braden N. McDaniel wrote:
>
>> Why is this a limitation of the ElevationGrid node? This is the kind of
>> thing an authoring tool should do for you. You note that there are tools out
>> there to create height field image files--it just as easy to go the other
>> direction.
>
>Point taken, however if a widly accepted and successful way of doing things
>exists, why not use it. An image file is already a rectangular grid, each pixel
>contains numerical information. They are compact and well known, and there
>are probably more tools available for working with image formats than
>text formats.
>
>In addition, think of what you could do with an animated GIF if it was directly
>processed as a height field.
>
>As for authoring tools............ what's an authoring tool?    :-)

Geez, it would be a heck of lot easier to write a tool to read an
image file and convert into an ElevationGrid node than to add more bloat
to the spec. I'm surprised that no one has done this by now.

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