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> This can be
> - visualisation of landscapes with real geometry (e.g., based
> on GIS data) and with vegetation (with more
> or less real architecture),
For this, may I suggest looking at OpenGL? (MesaGL is free)
My brother is at the university in Biology-Computers and he made a program to
view atoms and molecule from data that come out of an old good machine...
The program is made in OpenGL and you can view the molecule, rotate, move
in/out, add some special effects such as lighting (casts shadows...), etc... and
you can also print the image to a file on the disk and they used povray for
this... they transfered the OpenGL code to povray code and the raytracer is so
much beautiful... but OpenGL is good for finding a good view spot!
> - modelling the light regime in plant/forest communities
> (under different light conditions, at different layers)
> combined with image analysis to evaluate the photosynthesic
> potential ...,
If those are calculation made by your program, C++ would be good for this, and
especially it includes OpenGL (it's a C++ library...), but IMHO, lights in
OpenGL are not very easy to learn and do not exactly what you want...
> - and and and
This was just a suggestion, see www.opengl.org for simple examples of what it
can also do... You would be amazed... and this is accelerated stuff! 25-100
Frames per second with a Voodoo3 2000!
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