[GRASS-dev] Replacement of NVIZ

Yann yann.chemin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 10:26:52 EDT 2007


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thanks,
Yann

On Monday 23 April 2007 21:07, Carlos "Guâno" Grohmann wrote:
> Even though I am not a real developer, I just want to say that NVIZ
> rocks! It could have some other features (like, create a view with a
> oberserver at XXX YYY ZZZ looking to 275 deg north, or something) but
> it's easy to use, and produce some really nice outputs. I just
> submitted a paper comparing ArcGis and GRASS for morphometric analysis
> (guess who won?) and the 3D image we use was made in NVIZ, because
> ArcScene doesn't even get close to the beauty of NVIZ 3D image.
>
> Having a [lightweighted] n-D visualizer integrated in the system
> really makes a difference.
>
> just my 0.02
>
> Carlos
>
> On 4/23/07, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
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> > I agree that integration is good, but I do not think NVIZ is
> > maintainable. I think a good and smooth link to an external 3d viewer
> > (call it Paraview or whatever). Why exactly this could not be a
> > replacement for nviz?
> > We cannot do everything within grass: the dev team is small compare to
> > the code base, and externalizing functions is the only way to make real
> > progress, in my view.
> > All the best.
> > pc
> >
> > Michael Barton ha scritto:
> > > So I hope that we can get NVIZ ported to wxPython and make it an even
> > > more seamless part of the geospatial visualization tools for GRASS.
> > > Making tighter connections between GRASS and other, external
> > > visualization tools is also a worthy plan--similar to the integration
> > > between GRASS and R. But IMHO, we should not abandon NVIZ or something
> > > like it.
> >
> > - --
> > Paolo Cavallini
> > http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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