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NAME

v.out.blend

DESCRIPTION

v.out.blend was written towards Blender 3d computer graphics software users. Regarding geographic data, accessing the capabilities of such software might be very helpful to produce high quality outputs, and rewarding for the data producer... but transferring digital data from GRASS to Blender is a bit tricky.

This addon aims at exporting to Blender a 3d pointcloud (figuring eg topographic data), previously turned into a triangular mesh. Optionally one can export a raster as an image which can further be draped on this surface. As usual it is quite rough but the annotated code should be easily adaptable to one's personnal needs.

To run properly v.out.blend needs ParaView and its ParaView python client (pvpython) to be installed on your system.

EXAMPLE

This command generates a Stanford 3d mesh named MyMesh.ply, and a tiff image named ortho.tif, on the ~/Desktop directory : 
v.out.blend vinput=MyMesh rinput=ortho dsn="~/Desktop"

SEE ALSO

v.out.ply, v.out.vtk

AUTHOR

Vincent Bain, Toraval, France

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