Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unhd!rg
From: rg@uunet!unhd (Roger Gonzalez )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: surface plotting code
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.155411.21230@uunet!unhd>
Date: 21 Oct 90 15:54:11 GMT
Reply-To: rg@unhd.UUCP (Roger Gonzalez )
Distribution: comp
Organization: Marine Systems Engineering Lab
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I'm looking for some code that will (on a PC, preferably, but I will port)

- do a surface mesh from any orientation, reasonably optimized, with or
  without hlr.
- draw a path traveled in 3-space above it.  

I already wrote some quickie code to do it, but its slow and warty. 
Since I know that its been done a jillion times already, I am going to
be lazy and try to leach off the net-minds.  I'll take subsets of what I
asked for as well, and if you happen to have a fractal landscape 
generator that feeds your routines, all the better (I'm still running
my C-port of a BASIC fractal program from Scientific American years ago!)
The generator should be easily excised, since this will be used for real
data as well as simulation.

Please mail directly to me, and also any "me too"s, so as to cut down on the
bandwidth that tripe like this generates. :-)

-Roger

-- 
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
 than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra 
rg@unhd.unh.edu               |  UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory
r_gonzalez@unhh.bitnet        |  Durham, NH  03824-3525