DEM's and a question
Greg, we spoke several months ago about the use of DEM's in 3DS. Here's an
update on my progress if you are interested. I got the 12 DEM's covering
Crater Lake NP pieced together. 1/2 came from USGS in feet, the others in
meters. The conversion was not as clean as I would have preferred, but
workable. My next step is to use a GIS system (IDRISI) to make some
intermediate images for later use in 3DS, and to put the bathymetric data into
the current image of the lake inplace of the lake surface as provided by USGS.
The real work is about to start I think. I can make some changes
mathematically, but will have to slog through most of it. More later. (good
thing I don't do this for a living!)
Does your company deal with video editing equipment? I was interested in
developments in digital editing on a PC and have been trying to find out what
might be out there and what kind of quality it is capable of. Right now my
original footage is shot on Hi-band 8mm and I edit from my 2 hi band cameras
through a WJMX-12 onto SVHS. Very labor intensive as well as taking lots of
table space. It also doesn't produce the quality of final image I would like
to see for this project I am doing on Crater Lake. Video suppliers I have
spoken with don't seem to know anything about computer based editing other than
the video toaster and I didn't spot anything in CIS's Broadcasting
Professionals Form. I am pretty much committed to the IBM world as opposed to
Macs or Amigas. I am hoping to use a PC so I can stay on the same machine I
work 3DS on.
Thanks,
Dave