[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] Interpolation with faultlines?

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Fri Feb 22 04:53:03 EST 2008


On 22/02/08 10:47, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
> On 22.02.2008 10:54, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>  >>
>>> FWIW, there is surfit [1] (FOSS). It supports fault lines AIUI - 
>>> linear features which don't have a value assigned, but only depict a 
>>> curve at which the interpolation should break. They call break/fault 
>>> lines "inequalities". I still haven't used surfit, but from examples 
>>> [2] it seems interesting.
>>
>> It definitely looks interesting and as it is a tcltk library, it 
>> should be very easy to integrate this into a grass script module à la 
>> r.surf.nnbathy, i.e. export GRASS data to ascii, import into surfit 
>> and create surface, export to ascii and import into GRASS.
>>
> 
> What do you think, would this maybe be an interesting SoC project, to 
> implement support for fault lines in GRASS?

Why not ? The question is whether this should be a new C-module, an 
extension to an existing module (v.surf.rst) or a script to integrate 
surfit. If the latter, it might be a bit weak as a SoC project, but the 
two former seem right in terms of scale.

Moritz


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