Posted by Mimic on 08/25/05 03:56

^reaper^ wrote:
> While sipping absinthe, Mimic heard a loud sucking noise coming from
> alt.2600, and hastily inscribed the following unintelligible Sanskrit in
> <news:HZGdnV92RcmCIZHeRVnyjw@pipex.net>:
>
>
>>hrmm so aside from all the plotting. Can you use GIS to produce 3D
>>enviroments based on real world geodata?
>
>
> Oh, definitely. For a taste, go here: http://vrmlworks.crispen.org and
> click on teh worlds link, then scroll down a bit to the "real places"
> heading. Some of the vr is decent. And most of it beats teh chit,
> bandwidth-wise, compute-wise, and anim-wise out of flash 3d emuls.
>

hrmm Ill have to ook into it some more then I GIS [see what I did there
;)] ... most of those links are dead heh.

I see how you'd build up natural terrain into 3 dimensional models, but
how do you do the interior designs and city scapes, surely you would
have to go out with some laser oojimafip to get all the dimensions and
what not..?

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