In some of my first posts, I discussed the possibility of using povray for viewshed analyses, since it is a more flexible tool, and can better handle complex analyses, like terrain + vegetation, something which most GIS tools cannot. In the end though, I just produced a simple terrain based viewshed analysis. Now, I’m getting ready to go deeper. Now, I’m ready to put some … Continue reading POV-Ray for viewsheds (with trees?)
Ok, so projecting an image isn’t hard at all in POV-Ray. I’m not sure what I was thinking. In my first post on camera calibration in POV-Ray, I suggested that we could analytically solve for lens and topographic distortion in POV-Ray. I haven’t gotten far as I don’t have a work project to take advantage of this yet, but I projected a false color infrared … Continue reading Follow-up (#1) for Camera Calibration in POV-Ray (Porro-Koppe Principle in Virtual)
A complete analytic solution for geometric distortions in remote sensing (ahem, ignoring atmosphere, of course) Ok, so here is another thought experiment. This time, it will take a few months before I have time to write the code for this, but maybe the thought experiment will inspire someone. A major problem of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and computer vision is correction of lens distortion. Thanks to … Continue reading 19th Century Camera Calibration for Remote Sensing in PovRay (or Porro-Koppe Principle in Virtual)
global_settings { max_trace_level 1 } #include “shapes.inc” #include “colors.inc” #include “textures.inc” height_field { png “c:\temp\povray\n2225625.png” // 16-bit integer digital elevation water_level 0.0 texture { pigment { image_map { png “C:\temp\povray\n2225625_drape.png” map_type 0 interpolate 2 once } // Aerial rotate x*90 } } scale <5000, 65536, 5000> // Scale to real world size translate <2224868,0,625008> // Translate to location in Ohio state plane } /// Orthographic … Continue reading POV-Ray for viewsheds code
Ok, here’s the basic idea– we have an orthographic scene with a height_field object scaled to real world units. The observers in the viewshed become points of light, thus for each observer, we “light” the areas visible from each observer, render, and boom, viewshed created. In addition, if we have three or fewer view points, we can render them in, say cyan, yellow, and magenta, … Continue reading Follow on to POV-Ray for GIS Analyses–metametacode, no code yet, sorry!
Well, I tried something that so far has been a real success. I did a viewshed analysis in POV-Ray. Nothing significant in that analysis– it’s just a topography based analysis, just like one might do in GRASS or ArcGIS. But what is interesting, is now I can add buildings (also not hard in a GIS) and trees (which can be quite hard to add). Suddenly … Continue reading POV-Ray for GIS Analyses
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