Surface Modelling
- Thread starter Nefarious
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To clarify;
I am after a 2D surface (mesh would be okay but I would like to be able to texturise it or at the very least colour it) but having a variable X positio (like a crumpled tissue).
Effectively a terrain map BUT of a non-quadrilateral design. I have been trying to get a piece of software called Surfer to do my bidding but it's not been very successful and will not give me the 4th dimensional aspect (time). Surfer may, with a bit of pushing, give me what I want as I can apparently blank out certain areas so visually represent the shape that I want while being mathermatically based on a standard geometric shape.
The only piece of software that I've found to get anywhere close is something called Artemis but it was developed for modal analysis and is a bit beyond my ken but I'm studying as I go...
I am after a 2D surface (mesh would be okay but I would like to be able to texturise it or at the very least colour it) but having a variable X positio (like a crumpled tissue).
Effectively a terrain map BUT of a non-quadrilateral design. I have been trying to get a piece of software called Surfer to do my bidding but it's not been very successful and will not give me the 4th dimensional aspect (time). Surfer may, with a bit of pushing, give me what I want as I can apparently blank out certain areas so visually represent the shape that I want while being mathermatically based on a standard geometric shape.
The only piece of software that I've found to get anywhere close is something called Artemis but it was developed for modal analysis and is a bit beyond my ken but I'm studying as I go...
I have a series of fixed loci whose heights are determinable (by an equation) at any given time. I would like to be able to have an off the shelf solution where I could put in the formula for each locus (the formula is different for each locus) and for it to produce a video for me but we can't always get what we want.
Failing the above dream solution I was hoping to use some existing software to perform a similar function. I have created a spreadsheet that will create the values for any time that I would care to input which can then be fed into a suitable piece of mapping software. I have been trying to get a program called 'Surfer' to do this but it is not proving brilliantly succesful. The problem I am running into seems to be that it tries to smooth out the edges a little too much when it expands the data set so that it can create a simple quadrilateral rather than the bespoke shape that I was after.
My idea was to use image morphing software to blend the various images together to create the effect of a video. An easy solution would be to create many many steps and have an animated .gif but this may turn out a little crude...
Failing the above dream solution I was hoping to use some existing software to perform a similar function. I have created a spreadsheet that will create the values for any time that I would care to input which can then be fed into a suitable piece of mapping software. I have been trying to get a program called 'Surfer' to do this but it is not proving brilliantly succesful. The problem I am running into seems to be that it tries to smooth out the edges a little too much when it expands the data set so that it can create a simple quadrilateral rather than the bespoke shape that I was after.
My idea was to use image morphing software to blend the various images together to create the effect of a video. An easy solution would be to create many many steps and have an animated .gif but this may turn out a little crude...