Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++bitch.reading.sgi.com)
Mon, 23 Oct 1995 18:18:06 +0100
What is the database for?
What type or area is it?
What quality of feature representation do you require?
How geospecific & accurate does the database have to be?
What tools do you have?
What is your source information like?
How important is rendering performance?
If you fill in some of these blanks I'll be happy to give you my comments.
On Oct 23, 5:30pm, Peter Ebbesmeyer wrote:
> Subject: Creating visual databases
> Hello everybody,
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> we are using IRIS Performer to build a virtual factory. Now we consider to
join
> a project where we have to build a terrain model. We gained the experience
that
> creating the visual database is a very time consuming task and we do not have
> much experience in building terrain models.
>
> Therefore my question to those of you who have experience in building terrain
> models: How long does it take for somebody who has experience with a state of
> the art modeling tool to build a database of the size of the model used for
the
> Performer Town Demo provided terrain data and imagefiles for textures are
> available? Sure, the answer to this question can only be an estimation but
such
> an estimation would be very valuable for us.
>
> Thank you in advance for any answer,
> Peter
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-- Angus Dorbie, Silicon Graphics Ltd, UK dorbie++at++reading.sgi.com
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