Your rotating pipe is superb.
Thank you!
Have you noticed that it is not possible to enter into the pipe ? I'll have to spend some time there to figure everything out, then come back with some more questions.
Did you noticed that if you "ctrl-mouse-up/down" or "alt-mouse-up/down" you can drag and zoom?
My concern now is the 150000 pts limit.
Maybe my memory is failing but I thought I mangae to bust through that limit, not sure now.
Could it be pushed to allow the display of a much higher resolution (and size) picture (about 2 million points)?
What would be the cost, in term of speed ? Is it worth using a 3D capable videoboard ?
I can only guess that a good graphics bd could help, particilarly when using transparency.
One problem will be to interpolate the triangular mesh obtained during the 3D map surface generation, to get an array of evenly spaced points on a square grid. This is where the 2 million points will be generated, from a 10000 node mesh.
Any idea ?
You may not have to make the mesh square. The pipe version just list the points.
Like I said previously, please share your finding and results. When it comes to the 3-d chart, I have only wondered around in the dark and would like hear more about what others find.
Ben
