[OSGeo-Discuss] 3D visualization

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Thu Aug 27 18:12:17 EDT 2009


P Kishor wrote:
> Am looking for suggestions on how to take raster-style data (values
> per grid) and create 3D surfaces out of it. This would be not just for
> terrain but for anything... for example, a 3D surface of income, or
> age or any other parameter.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 

R would probably be a good option.
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=27

There's all sorts of packages for perspective type plots, this one
happens to be geographic.
http://bm2.genes.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/R_current/library/GEOmap/man/TOPOCOL.html

NVIZ in Grass might work too, just skip the projection stuff.

Alex


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