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Hi(gh)!
On 16.08.20 01:22, Bald Eagle wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_=22Yadgar=22_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>
>> I can't write binary data to disk as I have to build a mesh2 object -
>> AFAIK this can only be achieved by writing ASCII text!
>
> No one said anything about writing binary data.
Then I don't understand you at all... must be the August heat in here!
> (but yes you can with POV-Ray)
I know... but it won't help me! And don't forget: it's not just a basic
mesh2, it's a mesh2 with smooth triangles and per-vertex textures! It
has to have smooth triangles because otherwise there would be too much
artifacts (gaps in the surface) - even now I sometimes find tiny white
dots, but at least anti-aliasing is able to hide this.
> Now, tell the truth. You and Sven are brothers, or at least cousins.
No, we are not.
> Perhaps there is a feature of MeshLab or PoseRay or an STL-file software,
> perhaps Blender - that can take an image map and convert it into a mesh.
> There are some cloud computing solutions out there - maybe look into those.
>
> Perhaps Maurice already has some sort of tool in Blender that can easily handle
> this.
Who is Maurice?
>
> The next question is: do you really need this kind of extreme resolution?
> At this point?
Hmmm, that's a question not too easy to answer... my aim in the long run
is a full-fledged open sources Earth model with realistic detail in
"pedestrian" perspective - POVEarth. If I just would produce animations
of overflights at 10,000 metres above sea level (e. g. for a new version
of my "Earth Flight" project - see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4fCO2ccm-w ) then probably 1800 by 1800
or even 900 by 900 data points will do. But, as I mentioned in the
"Georgia on my mind" thread, now I made contact with an avid Georgian
POVer, who is eager to see some background relief for his modelings of
historic Tbilisi - and in this case, 3601 by 3601 looks of course much
better!
> Can you simply use a heightfield, or a smaller image, or step through the image
> every nth pixel?
Heightfields don't follow Earth's curvature, they are "flat", smaller
images or larger steps I used with test renders, yes, they render pretty
fast, but at a "pedestrian" perspective, they are much too crude.
> I just looked at your old mesh file, and it's 24+MB. That's a ton of
> information for a single tile.
My full-resolution mesh2 files are a cool 3 GiB! And it's obvious that,
at 24 GiB RAM, only two of them already cause POV-Ray to crash... I need
MUCH more RAM and a MUCH faster CPU! And a private little dual fluid
nuclear reactor on my balcony to power this beast of a computer...
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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