World Map Continued

One of the interesting things about the GraphicsPath object is that you can check for point inclusion. In this case the mouse's coordinates were used to select a country. Probably not the most efficient way to do selection, but a very quick fix.

World map via svg

One thing I've been meaning to do for a long time, was write my own code to view various simply geographic data. I found some maps brought in as SVG geometry and wrote a viewer and parser for it. Took a bit longer than what I thought, as I didn't properly read the SVG format, and is also a reminder that I really need to learn ANTR better, couldn't really figure out how to match text with Arrays instead of Lists. The next step is to map these points to Longitude/Latitude values. The distortion of this (probably Mecator) projection makes Greenland look huge. I will have to look at projecting this data to a different system.

HDR format

Revisiting an old project today. Made a viewer for the HDR/PIC format that comes out of Radiance. I created it before, though lost the old code. Also the compression seems to have changed. Now it uses adaptive run-length encoding which took awhile for me to get my head around. Also had a go at the false color image using the luminence values. 

The next step after this, is to 

With the more familiar red-green-blue.

With the interpolation function acting wacky.