01-24-2017, 05:05 PM
You have described it well. 250M pts on about 10 layers (10 colors). 1x1 might work, if that doesn't work (can't distinguish individual pixels) then 2x2. It's not about seeing them ALL. Well it could be I guess, but that would be seeing the whole and not the pieces. Its about having them all so the user can choose what to see.
A friend described a system he used where he had a Billion pts but the system let him set the display to 100M. That could be an option, limiting how much gets displayed tho I'm not sure how one does that.
What I need is to see the data in 2D views (Plan, profile and Cross-section) then be able to push some to 3D. I had thought to attack the problem by creating a 3D model then limiting the camera to top view for Plan.
But I need to come up with something else for Profile and Cross-section. A thought was to build those as very thin 3D views with width and height but a single depth. These '2D' views would have no rotation, just zoom and pan. You have samples that do something like this. You do 3D graphs, but I'd thought it would be fairly simple to limit it to a 'thin' 3D. These graphs would need much smaller amounts of data (a few lines with 100,000 locations each)
I had also thought to limit the 3D view rotation to prevent the user getting lost. I think you do that in a sample.
A friend described a system he used where he had a Billion pts but the system let him set the display to 100M. That could be an option, limiting how much gets displayed tho I'm not sure how one does that.
What I need is to see the data in 2D views (Plan, profile and Cross-section) then be able to push some to 3D. I had thought to attack the problem by creating a 3D model then limiting the camera to top view for Plan.
But I need to come up with something else for Profile and Cross-section. A thought was to build those as very thin 3D views with width and height but a single depth. These '2D' views would have no rotation, just zoom and pan. You have samples that do something like this. You do 3D graphs, but I'd thought it would be fairly simple to limit it to a 'thin' 3D. These graphs would need much smaller amounts of data (a few lines with 100,000 locations each)
I had also thought to limit the 3D view rotation to prevent the user getting lost. I think you do that in a sample.