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Sun, 17 September 2000 00:00

Sylvain Carette
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Registered: May 2000

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Not sure if my understanding of spherical gridding correspond to the actual
implementation in TRIANGULATE and TRIGRID function and proc.
 Running the sample code below as surface give a sine shaped surface
while I was expecting a sphere.
 I figure that perhaps SURFACE only display "flat" surface and what
I see is a unwarped sphere (?).
 I though it would be better to feed the trigrid output to a polygon
as in IDLgrPolygon but now this one want xyz value while as far I can see
trigrid result is 2 dimentional array...
 What do I miss?
My intend here is to project elevations grids onto wgs84 geoid but projecting
onto a perfect sphere will be just fine to begin with. If I'm unclear,
I need the final dem be patch of a sphere so that when putting all of them
together they form a globe and the cartesian space holding it have its
origin at the center of the globe.
I've done once an autolisp function in Autocad doing this but the dem
have to be converted first to dxf in no more than 300x300 chunk and it
do not handle the case for dems that are not in long/lat proj. Very, very
big and slow...
Here the sample code from TRIGRID example2 feeded to SURFACE:
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<pre>; Create some random longitude points:

lon = RANDOMU(seed, 50) * 360. - 180.
  
; Create some random latitude points:
lat = RANDOMU(seed, 50) * 180. - 90.
  
; Make a fake function value to be passed to FVALUE. The system 
; variable !DTOR contains the conversion value for degrees to 
; radians.
f = SIN(lon * !DTOR)^2 * COS(lat * !DTOR)
  
; Perform a spherical triangulation:
TRIANGULATE, lon, lat, tr, $
    SPHERE=s, FVALUE=f, /DEGREES
  
; Perform a spherical triangulation using the values returned from 

; TRIANGULATE. The result, r, is a 180 by 91 element array:
r=TRIGRID(f, SPHERE=s, [2.,2.],$
   [-180.,-90.,178.,90.], /DEGREES)
surface, r

end</pre>
</blockquote>

 Any cues welcome thanks
Sylvain Carette
 VRML designer-composer
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		spherical gridding By: Sylvain Carette on Sun, 17 September 2000 00:00
		Re: Spherical gridding By: JD Smith on Thu, 19 June 2003 15:31
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 19 June 2003 12:17
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 19 June 2003 12:14
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 June 2003 11:45
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 June 2003 11:42
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 19 June 2003 10:11
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 19 June 2003 09:32
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 19 June 2003 09:14
		Re: Spherical gridding By: hunter on Thu, 19 June 2003 08:35
		Re: Spherical gridding By: hunter on Fri, 20 June 2003 11:06
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 19 June 2003 07:41
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 June 2003 04:54
		Re: Spherical gridding By: wmconnolley on Wed, 18 June 2003 12:09

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