Release Notes MicroImages, Inc. TNT-Products V. 6.8

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RELEASE OF RV6.8 TNT PRODUCTS Redesigned Line Pattern Editor Establishing Dynamic Relations Between Nodes, Points, Lines, and Polygons Improved Linking to Databases via ODBC Additions to Landscape Builder Import/Export Shapefile Line/Polygon Styles Vector Topology Types 2-sided Behavior of Topology Types Oracle ® Spatial Layer vs TNT Vector Object Importing Vector Objects from Oracle Spatial Layers Oracle Spatial Import Options (1/2) Editable Object Backup On Demand (1/2) Exporting Vector Objects to Oracle Spatial Layers 2-sided Improved Vector to Raster Conversion Controlling Color of Map Grid Tick Marks (1/2) Convert Regions to Vector Polygons (1/2) Destriping ASTER Images Automatic Backup Options When Editing Interoperate Tools When Editing (1/2) Spline Lines in 3D (1/2) Filter Vectors Using Scripts WYSIWYG Text Editing Inserting Special Characters Diagrammetric Map Layout Tools Map Grid Labeling Options Publish Maps Containing Hatch Patterns Creating SML Dialogs Build SML Dialogs Using XML Sample Dialog Descriptions in XML Menus in SML Dialogs using XML (1/2) Strict Syntax Checking in SML (1/2) SML Dialog with Tabbed Pages using XML Nested SML Dialogs using XML 2-sided Communicate with Visual Basic Programs using SML 2-sided Suppressing Vegetation in Multispectral Images Making Color Separates for Printing 2-sided MICROIMAGES MEMO 6 5 MAY 2003
RELEASE OF RV6.8 TNT PRODUCTS Introduction MicroImages in its 17 th year in business is pleased to distribute RV6.8 of the TNT products. This is the 53rd release of TNTmips and adds 190 new features submitted by clients and MicroImages. What follows is a brief introduction of the most significant of these new capabilities. The interface components used throughout the TNT products to create and assign styles for vector elements have been rewritten to streamline them and add requested features. The design for a new, faster and higher quality 3D rendering model is being introduced. Cartographic features continue to be added to create professionally designed maps and image maps. Import and export of Oracle Spatial tables now permit TNTmips and TNTedit to be used to prepare or alter these tabular graphics. ODBC support has been improved and permits easier and faster access and exchange of tabular data with Oracle, SQL Server 2000, Access, and other external database systems. The Spatial Data Editor has received much attention but represents a very complex piece of software. It now provides auto-backup features to protect your work. The free TNTsim3D geopublishing tool has many new features to improve the real time presentation/publishing of your geospatial results. You asked for a means to connect actions in TNTview to Visual Basic programs, and this is available via SML. And, to keep all this running smoothly, the error management and patching scheme suggested by several has been instigated. In this release several subtle refinements are being released, such as line densification for scale and projection changes with corresponding changes in vector sizes. Virtual fields can now be defined between element types for routing and monitoring dynamic systems and bringing GIS topology to bear where CAD data structures do not work. • 2D Displays: Multiple views can be geolocked at different view scales so that zooming in one auto zooms the others by the same amount (for example, use synoptic and detailed views). During panning the smaller scale synoptic view will auto pan to recenter on the larger detailed view if any part of it is panned outside the synoptic view. • 3D Displays: A third and high quality static perspective model is being released for rendering poster sized 3D rasters or in layouts. It renders a composite multilayer 3D as fast as the other available models (ray tracing and dense triangulation, which also have minor improvements). It uses a game oriented triangulation server to compute the terrain from the DEM and render it using either the DirectX or OpenGL via the display board’s graphics chip. The surface layers or textures are also draped over this model using DirectX or OpenGL. A new texture server is used to resample all the texture layers selected with a choice of 6 different optional antialiasing and smoothing methods. Choose nearest neighbor or bilinear convolution for maximum rendering speed. Choose full anisotropic mipmapping for maximum quality. It computes the distance and perspective angle to the surface for each texel (which means, screen pixel). It then locates and computes the color of each screen pixel using its distance to interpolate between the average of multiple cells in two small linear arrays each oriented in the direction of view in the two bracketing pyramid layers. • Style Editor: The Style Editor and its interface have been rewritten to improve their ease of use and add a variety of new style features. Point symbols can now MICROIMAGES MEMO 7 5 MAY 2003
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