From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: March 11, 2010 10:52:56 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Lunar Photo of the Day

Hi Howard;

Congratulation. I saw that a few days ago and wondered if it was the same "Howard Fink" or not.

Very cool way of generating the a real 3D relief map. What sort of vertical exaggeration did you use for it?

20+ years ago I had developed a 2D / 3D Mac Only Mapping system that did that sort of thing (and a lot more). I eventually had it tuned so that one could generate QD3D objects with draped texture maps, lighting effects etc. and then your could rotate them in real time even on the first generation PowerPC Mac. However after the "Second Coming of Steve", he "Steved" QD3D (which cost me a few hundred thousand dollars in lost development time) and tried to replace it with OpenGL OpenGL still has no retained mode for saving models (colors, textures, rotation positions etc.), so it's useless for mine and all my customers purposes. I had the SGI guys pooping their pants back then because to do the same thing on an SGI big iron box was 10+ times the cost of what I was doing. But the "Steving" of QD3D and other "changes in direction" by Steve put me out of business.

Milton J. Aupperle

On 11-Mar-10, at 10:35 AM, Howard wrote:

This is off topic, but my work is displayed in Lunar Photo of the Day.

Howard Fink

http://lpod.wikispaces.com/March+10%2C+2010