Friday, October 19. 2012

Our Versatile Friend, the Sphere

I've been playing around with a web-based tool for adding 3D primitives for rendering in edWare 3D. In an HTML form, the user can enter values for transparency and color; location can be entered or selected from a map view. By default, elevation is set to DEM elevation at the selected location, although the user can enter whatever elevation they'd like. I'm particularly fond of spheres:

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So you can see some different locations, color and transparencies. A bit ho hum...

Then I thought it might be nice to form a line in "string of pearls" fashion:

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Kinda cool. So then, why not polygon fills?

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Cooler still. But it gives me the feel of some ag field with rows of crops. So let's add some random "jitter" and see: