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- From: andyrose@netcom.com (San Francisco Fractal Factory)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Legal Visualization
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 19:17:53 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Legal viz is the ethically amorphous line of work I find myself in.
- In our case, a concrete company is sueing a cement company (or vice
- versa) regarding quality. Apparently several thousand concrete
- railroad ties developed cracks,etc.,etc.
-
- So there exists a quarry in N. Mass which rests on a fault. This
- fault runs from N. Carolina (or somewhere) up north. Glacial
- activity provided the site with gravel which was hauled out of there
- before the workers got to the bedrock. The argument rests on
- the microscopic structure of the quarried rock being unsuitable.
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- Whether there is a shred of truth in this scenario is beyond
- me . I've never seen the quarry or felt the rock, although
- I have some overhead photos. I know nothing of making
- cement. I don't know there is a fault there. In fact, I
- don't know if the cracks in the railroad ties are important
- or dangerous.
-
- I am contracted to create a 'tutorial' which I suppose a jury
- or a judge will look at. This 'tutorial' will last about
- 12 minutes and will combine 2D and 3D elements, video and
- narrative to illustrate the scenario. I got some cool 3D geographies
- of the area and generated a hill from contours supplied
- by the gravel company. Using maps of quarry working faces
- I constructed spaces where the quarry was and subtracted them
- from the hillside (Wavefront Booleans are much more solid than
- previously experienced, hill grid size was 100 X 100). I will
- texture map the overhead photos onto the quarry and probably
- a dimmed version of a topo map of the area onto the landscape.
- There will be some camera motion but not much. Labels fade
- in and out.
-
- When I am through I will post a list of bugs in 3.0 which right now
- is about 17 items. Can't seem to get Wavefront support on the phone.
-
- Crimson VGX is really a dreamboat and is almost acceptable
- for large grids. Wavefront Director has made the setup much much better.
- This code handles all the environment variables and launches
- applications using widgets to set command line args. Property Editor
- is super_ I mean it. If you ever had to pick colors for a Wavefront
- job by typing in RGB triples you can relate. RenLine is really
- useful also. It 'renders' 'lines' which were previously ignored
- by Wavefront.
-
- later...
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- Andrew Rose andyrose@netcom.com FAX 4155537756 When peace rules the planet
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