Displaying pipes and cylinders

[Micky Allen]

joos

Amazing work which I stumbled on by accident !

As always there are people who want to push the envelope i.e. me 

I am a Geologist, and the key thing in my profession is to try and view things in 3D, is it possible to do the following

1] Construct the outline of a hill using GPS data once it has been converted from Lat Long (degrees and minutes) into decimal degrees. [[ the answer would be yes]]

2] Construct a vertical cylinder (representing a borehole going down into the ground from the top of the hill) [[Would one have to make the cylinder from a sequence of slices]]

3] Construct an vertical cylinder (just like in [2]) with different colours showing different amounts of minerals present ?

4] Somehow have them all running at the same time (hill and cylinders) ?

5] If yjis is not possible - is it because the program cannot do it - or is it just a case of writing some sort of plug-in ?

cheers

Micky

[Micky Allen]

Silly me I forgot to attach a file showing what I meant

Micky

[Jos de Jong]

I think it will require quite some work to implement these vertical cilinders in the 3d view. 

What may be less work is to extend the Graph3D such that you can select data points in it, and when a data point is selected, draw the corresponding vertical cilinder right from the 3d graph.

For your application it may be interesting to see if it is easy to realize with WebGL (for example using three.js), that will be more flexible in this regard.