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- From: williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
- Subject: Image data on 3D model (How?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.225315.26937@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 22:53:15 GMT
- Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns)
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- I have an interesting problem and would like to know
- if I solve it using explorer.
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- I have a groundwater model I use to generate contaminate
- plumes and vector fields which I view with iso-surfaces,
- etc. What I would like to do is "paste" an image of the
- site on the surface of the boundbox.
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- I haven't even tried to do this yet, has anyone tried
- this? or is it even possible with the existing explorer
- modules?
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- Lacking the ability to paste on picture on my boundbox, is
- it possible to paste a Autocad DXF file on one of the boundaries?
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- Again I haven't tried this yet. I do have a MOVIESTAR.BYU which
- has a translator from DXF to MOVIE.BYU format which I suppose
- I could read in with the ReadBYU module. Would this work? How
- would I get it on the face of the box. The coordinate systems for
- the model and the site plan do not match. (I know I could write
- a program that would translate one to the other :-( but prefer
- the easy way if possible ) Is there a way to interactively line
- one set of data up with the other?
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- Back to the picture question. If I can get the picture pasted on
- one side of the bounding box, is there a way to make it
- semi-transparent?
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- Thanks for any help.
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