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Line Of Sight In WWJava

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 06, @03:20PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the I-can-see-the-light dept.
The Earth Is Square blog informs us that there is a ray casting and line of sight implementation in WWJava by way of Patrick Murris's blog. Here is an excerpt from Patrick's blog : "It is a common issue to be able to find out where in the world does a line intersect the terrain surface. The WorldWind Java SDK allows to resolve the intersection from the eye point of view using the pick process - based on drawing objects in unique colors, but that does not help much when you need to compute such intersections from another perspective, like for line of sight calculations."
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