more fiddling with Blender and GIS

Posted by Douglas Roberts-2 on
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Python, for the transportation part.  BTW, I found this language speed
comparison interesting:

http://furryland.org/~mikec/bench/

--Doug

On 2/27/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hey Steve, I know it's been a good long time since you posted this,
> but did you end up using Python for the agent simulation stuff as
> well, or just to drive Blender's topography stuff?
>
> On 1/12/06, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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