Now I am on the computer where I was playing with these VRML models, I can confirm that the viewer I was using was ParaView http://paraview.org/
I've just checked, and it can export to POV-Ray format, the open source ray tracing software which can be used to produce very high quality rendering. Footleg On 11 October 2013 19:37, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote: > +++ Footleg [2013-10-11 08:24 +0100]: >> I used the vrml export from Loch to produce a 3D model file which was >> suitable to get 3D printed. The article about it (written by Mike Bedford, >> who got the printing done) is in the latest issue of Descent magazine. I >> could import that model file into other 3D modelling software, so perhaps >> there is an application out there which can convert it? > > 'meshlab' looks like a good tool for doing this > http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ (already packaged in Debian). I > expect blender can too, but some goolgeing suggests that this needs > extra scripts. > > The wavefront .obj file seems a fairly straightforward format: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file#File_format > > But it only represents surfaces so far as I can see, not lines. So we > can export terrain and volumes, but not plain surveys (without faking > survey lines into cylinders). > > It does look like this would be a useful format to output. Or teach > meshlab to read/write .3D and/or lox. > > Do Bruces' mates know that Aven can export a video file directly, > animating a survey? However that can only have a mesh surface (as > generated by terraintool) currently, which may or may not be 'high > quality' enough for their purposes. > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM > http://wookware.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion
