Stage 1.
Get the most basic pipeline working: starting from a
collection of points and a collection of lines, make a
TIN object in memory that can be drawn with no
embellishment (no hillshades or elevation color bands
yet).
Stage 2.
Save the TIN to a file on disk and be able to read
that back into a TIN object.
Stage 3.
Expand the import side so that points and lines could
be read from a file. I would like to at least get an
import pipeline working for WKT based files and USGS
.bil elevation files.
Stage 4.
Get hillshades and color elevation bands to work in
the display of the TIN.
Stage 5.
Make a multi-resolution data structure in which you
could read in the full point set, then query the data
structure to get a TIN at the requested resolution.
(I’m sure by this point the summer will have ended,
but work will continue in the following direction)
Stage 6.
3D display of the TIN and overlays using java opengl
bindings.
Stage 7.
Get the multi-resolution data structure to be database
backed and queried through WMS.
Stage 8.
Viewshades.
Stage 9.
Watersheds.