[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.2.1RC1 published

[Michael Barton]

On 12/11/06 5:41 PM, "Helena Mitasova" <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:

> 
> I did not test it with spearfish, but I can confirm that there is a
> problem still in 6.3
> My problem was not the same - icons, colors worked fine, but when I
> chose x as
> a symbol all points were displayed under the surface, using other
> symbols they were
> draped properly: here is the image of what I tested it with (I sneak
> preview
> of the new data set we plan to replace the spearfish with)
> 
> http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/grasswork/grassprobl/
> nvizpointbug1.jpg
> (the black of I change the black squares to x they are all under the
> surface, even
> if I make them really big).
> 
> It would be useful if others tested this with different types of data
> and sequence
> of operations - this happened after I deleted and reloaded the data
> as Maciek has indicated.
> 

Helena,

I checked the x icon in a current (as of last Friday) version of NVIZ. On my
system (Mac OSX with x11 version of GRASS), I have the opposite problem from
you. The x's float above the landscape. I think the problem is that they are
trying to conform to the landscape rather than be a 3D icon like the rest of
them. This has been a long-standing problem AFAICT. This is one of the
reasons I switched the default icon from X to sphere (the other is  that the
x's are difficult to see). You can see a screenshot of the floating x's at
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/nviz_screenshots/floating_x.jpg>

BTW, the new landscapes look very cool. Where are they from? Switching the
demo set from Spearfish to someplace else after over 20 years is BIG news
for GRASS. Is the city of Spearfish protesting? ;-)

Michael
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

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