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Bad program name:3DEM Bad program Website: http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html |
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Worthless program because it does not have any terrain 'definition' for anything less than a mountain and valley side-by-side. Their sample showing the Grand Canyon area was impressive, but when I tried this on the Iowa cornfield and gully terrain, it was as if there WAS NO TERRAIN... like flying over a flat plate. Then..... colors were a problem because EVERYTHING was a stupid tan (shadings of brown) color with only minor variations in the shading. Maybe this looks different to other people, but to me it was worthless. A similar color complaint was made (about a different 'terrain' program - 'Google Maps Terrain') at this site. I am including this link as an example of what I am talking about with the 3DEM program. Computer race-car games have extremely good terrain definition on every turn and on every straight-a-way, so the lack of terrain definition in this program (3DEM) is inexcusable. Game programmers should get together with USGS and show the "GubMent" folks how to really use the power of modern computers.
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| Program Author's Sales Pitch |
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This zip file contains the 3dem program for creation of 3D terrain scenes and flyby animations from US Geological Survey Digital Elevation Models. Unzip and run the enclosed setup.exe to install 3dem and its comprehensive help file on your computer. The 3DEM program icon will be added to your Windows desktop. Click this icon to run the 3DEM program.
3dem was developed by Visualization Software LLC. More information
about the program and a gallery of terrain scenes and animations can
be found at http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html. Any
questions or suggestions can be sent to the author, Richard Horne,
at r.horne@verizon.net.
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