<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Mic:<br><br>I have heard from many folks that realistic terrain is an objective for a number of projects to represent real-life regions in a simulation, so I would vote +1 for any class, written details, tutorial, demo *or* whatever might get this knowledge spread around the Metaverse a bit.<br><br>Charles<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mic Bowman <cmickeyb@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:36:16 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Opensim-dev] TSB Feasibility Study: Online Virtual Worlds for Urban Regeneration Consultation<br></font><br>
FWIW...<br><br>There are two "plazas" on ScienceSim that use terrain built from GIS<br>data (Yellowstone National Park and Mt St Helens volcano... should be<br>one more 4x4 plaza coming soon). Feel free to come by and take a look<br>(hypergrid info for sciencesim is on the opensim wiki).<br><br>If there is interest, I would be happy to do a "class" on the process<br>I used to make those regions.<br><br>--mic<br><br><br>On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Dave Coyle <coyle+<a ymailto="mailto:opensim@knifejaw.com" href="mailto:opensim@knifejaw.com">opensim@knifejaw.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 2009-01-25 16:13:35 -0500, <a ymailto="mailto:mail@tola.me.uk" href="mailto:mail@tola.me.uk">mail@tola.me.uk</a> wrote:<br>>> As for OpenSim, I'm still exploring (though I'm running out of time). The Orcas<br>>> island example that Nebadon posted a link to is quite neat (or at least the<br>>> improved version linked to from the blog post) and
the Berkeley simulation from<br>>> lidar images also provides a good example.<br>><br>> Another link which might be useful.. generating OpenSim terrain maps<br>> from USGS DEM data:<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Elopes/terraingen/" target="_blank">http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/terraingen/</a><br>><br>> -Coyle<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Opensim-dev mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de" href="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de">Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de</a><br>> <a href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev" target="_blank">https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev</a><br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de" href="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de">Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de</a><br><a
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