http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/more-fiddling-with-Blender-and-GIS-tp521259p521446.html
> We're preparing for a project that will be an agent-based model of wildfire
> evacuation planning in Santa Fe -- Primarily a wildfire model coupled to a
> traffic model with agents embedded in a social network deciding whether they
> should stay in their houses or evacuate.
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> I'm putting Blender (
http://www.blender3d.org) through its paces to see if we
> can use it for the visualization (and possibly portions of the agent and/or fire
> modeling).
>
> Tonight, I tried importing Digital Elevation Models (DEM) for Los Alamos and
> Santa Fe directly into Blender. Below is a Quicktime that displays 2 square
> degrees between latitude 35-36N and longitude 105-107W. The movie starts in the
> southwest corner (35N107W) and moves up to the northwest over the Valle Caldera
> near LANL (35.5N106.5W) and then over to Santa Fe. It ends roughly just north of
> Santa Fe Ski Basins looking down toward Albuquerque.
>
http://www.redfish.com/projects/SFWildfire/SantaFe_DEM_SRTM.mov>
> I used DEM files of type SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) from an FTP
> directory at NASA (ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/)
>
> I found a SRTM conversion script on the Blender Elysiun forum. The script is
> very nicely packaged with a site, *great* documentation and a GUI in Blender.
> The site is here:
>
http://uaraus.altervista.org/index.php?filename=en/content/categories/Blender/DE> M_importer.html. There's other scripts available to deal with other formats.
>
> The documentation below is worth reading for more detail and it graphically
> explains the data format of the SRTM file:
>
http://www.redfish.com/projects/SFWildfire/DEM_importer_eng_0.0.4.pdf>
>
> -Steve
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