Hi Wilson, Thank you for your interest in OSM and GSoC.
The project idea you're talking about is actually meant in a different way. What we'd like to achive is a way to generate virtual camera flights. I.e. you use the OSM2World GUI to define waypoints and direction vectors to look at, i.e. the definition of the camera movement. The student's code would try to interpolate those positions to generate a smooth trajectory in 3D space and afterwards render the images along this trajectory. Rendering might either happen directly with OSM2World to output PNG images or via Povray. And in the end, ffmpeg/libav will take these images and make a video out of the single images. Of course there's more to it: The trajectory might be inputed via a GPX file or by defining your own format. Also the interpolation of the camera movement might be as simple as a polygon or something more sophisticated as bspline approximation or whatever else. But in the end the details are up to the student. We have a rough idea, we also have an idea how we would implement it. But we want to hear and see your ideas as long as it matches our overall goal :) Hope that helps, Peda _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
