Re: ElevationGrid.

[Neil Woodhouse <N.Woodhouse@earth.leeds.ac.uk>]

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.

Casteels wrote:

>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.

I like the idea's that The Casteels has brought forward here, more thought and wider discussion methinks.

Neil
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