RE: ElevationGrid

[roelofs@pmc.philips.com (Greg Roelofs)]

casteeld and/or Neil Woodhouse wrote:

>> I to am disappointed with the elevationGrid node. Most Ray-tracers
>> allow the use of
>> an image file where the color value sets the elevation. This is very
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^
                           gray value or colormap index only, as far as I know

> 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.

Why is the lack of a compressed binary format a limitation of VRML97?
Same issue...

(That said, I'd love to see a pgmtoelevgrid utility...)

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