On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:57:21 +0200, clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> Am 18.01.2011 14:52, schrieb Nekar Xenos:
>
>>>> This, about USGS DEM:
>>>>
>>>> http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/acrodocs/dem/
>>>
>>> As far as I understand, the format stores data in a non-rectangular
>>> format, which will make it pretty difficult for use in height fields.
>>
>> So I guess we need to ad a request for spherical heightfields as well :)
>
> Given the various possible ways of mapping sample points to lat/long  
> coordinates, the least common denominator would probably be a triangle  
> mesh, so what you'd actually ask for seems to boil down to another  
> syntax for describing mesh/mesh2 objects. Somethng like
>
> mesh_file {
>    FILE_TYPE FILE_NAME
>    [...]
> }
>
> (The same syntax could also be used for .obj files.)

Sounds good to me :)

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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