Re: creating a mesh from unstructured vertex data..

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From: Jack Hoxley (Jack.Hoxley_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:49:12 +0100

There are various algorithms for generating meshes from this sort of data...
I think some of them refer to "point clouds".

Most of them will be a fairly complex pre-processing step.

I can't think of any particular references (I have a book with some
algorithms in, but I forget its exact title) but this is a completely
generalised graphics problem - nothing specific to D3D (or OpenGL), so you
should find no shortage of resources.

hth
Jack

"Psiman" <bob@flemming.net> wrote in message
news:eDMIW70iEHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I have a series of x,y,z coordinates which specify the latitude, longitude
> and depth sounding from a marine chart, I want to create a mesh from this
> data so I can display a terrain map, however there is no structure to the
> data, does anyone have any idea how I can achive my goal?
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
>