I use NIMAMUSE (free at least to US citizens) to convert the DTED data to ArcInfo Binary format. The result has the non-geometry information stripped off, and it loads VERY quickly because it's binary. Read it in, compute normals, stripify it, add texture coordinates if you like, and you're done. I think it took me five lines of code (after I read the file, that is). kishore puvvada wrote: > hello, > I am new to j3d API and understand DEM even less. > > Can anyone recommend DEM loader APIs that they have > used? I tried using Portfolio from NCSA > http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~srp/Java3D/portfolio/index.html > to load a DEM image but having some problems. > > I came across another viewer API at: > http://www.geogr.uni-jena.de/~p6taug/demviewer/demv.html > > But I haven't been able to understand (it uses another > sw called VisAD) how to use it in a plain j3d program. > > I have specific questions in case someone has used > either of the above. If you have used any other APIs, > I would like to hear from you. > > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. > thanks, > Kishore > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". -- Pete Tinker
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