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- From: fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: How can I display an aircraft plot on top of a surface-terrain?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.190352.29059@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 19:03:52 GMT
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- Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research - Atmospheric Chemistry Div
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- I have an XY dataset of elevations which I can use to draw a surface-terrain
- map of any square of land in the US. I have another datset consisting of
- a series of XYZ coordinates that describe an aircraft track as it flies
- patters around a particular mountain in New Mexico.
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- I wish to generate a 3D surface map and the aicraft track in the same
- frame to show the position of the plane in relation to various terrain
- features. What is the best software for doing this? Is there public
- domain software we can use for an IBM Risc-System 6000 running X11R4 or
- X11R5? Unfortunately, I don't think we have the necessary graphics
- adapters to run the package "vis5d". Is there any MacIntosh software
- that would allow us to do something like this? We tried to use Deltagraph
- but it manages memory inefficiently and couldn't generate any but the
- most simple surface-terrain maps.
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- Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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- --Tim Fredrick (fredrick@acd.ucar.edu)
- Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307-1000
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