[CF-Devel] speculations about the floor (elevation)

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On 03-Jul-03 Mark Wedel wrote:
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      Third, if the editor had a elevation mode, where it simply displayed a color
     
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      gradient for the various elevations, say slowly rising to 10k being white,
     
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      it
     
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      would make it easy to flip to elevation mode, and see the grade of the land.
     
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      Might be easier to just do simple color ranges than gradiants.  I'd presume 
     
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      there is no smoothing, eg, this is an alternate map display, where high
     
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      squares 
     
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      are simply white, low squares are blue, and other squares have whatever
     
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      color. 
     
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      Eg, don't try to smooth finer than a square, and even then, maybe just have a
     
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      dozen colors that show elevation.
     
     
Basically by gradient, I meant that for values ranging from -5000 to 0, you
would go from dark to light blue.. not that the individual tiles be gradiants. 
And I think AV misunderstood my color bit.. I didn't mean to have a large
overview map thing.. All I wanted was a toggle "show elevation" that would show
colored squares instead of the tile graphics.  The image sizes and whatnot
would stay the same, nothing spectacular or complex.

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