Re: DFAD/DTED-loader

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Bob Cowling (cowling++at++torus.autometric.com)
Tue, 1 Apr 1997 23:06:44 -0500

On Apr 1, 10:20am, Gerard Tyra - SA Technology wrote:
> Subject: Re: DFAD/DTED-loader
> Wilfred,
>
> A little background information.
> ...
> Since both of these formats are based on sampled data, there is a fairly
> extensive conversion to viewable data. For most applications, a complete
> coversion will generate enough geometry to overload any current
> machine. Therefore, a runtime loader is not appropriate. If you want
> to use the data, I suggest looking at a modeler such as Multigen or
> Designer's Work Bench.
>
> Gerry

 <begin commercial>
Or you could use Autometric's Edge Product Family to view this and other types
of large image and terrain data which does the conversion on the fly.
Check out http://www.sgi.com/Products/hardware/Onyx/Solutions/defense.html
and http://www.autometric.com
 <end commercial>

Bob

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