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mike eschman wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>hello,
<p>we are developing a gis application to support weather event simulation
in a
<br>hydrology model that incorporates a pumping system. the initial
simulation
<br>represents the geographic area under simulation as a 2d plane filled
by polygons
<br>that define water storage areas and canal systems, with all water storage
areas
<br>of constant elevation.
<p>for our next iteration, we have high quality elevation data available.
It is not
<br>ground level elevation - the heights of structures and other masses
are reflected in
<br>the elevations. These files are quite large.
<p>the original 2d plane is going to slide along the z axis, through a
"point cloud" painted into a seperate surface representing the elevation
values. movement along the z axis represents changes in water level.
each water storage area must be able to change position on the z axis independent
of the others.
<p>the z axis is shorter than the x and y, as elevation can be represented
by an unsigned 8 bit numeric
<br>and x and y both require 32 bit unsigned integers.
<p>currently, we are using polydata point sets (x,y,z) with coordinate
values being
<br>unsigned 32 bit integers. we would like to have the z coordinate
stored as an 8 bit unsigned numeric, as this will save about 60 meg in
the size of our average polydata file.
<p>comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
<p>mike eschman, engima
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