mrdoob/three.js — Issue #726: Q: Using Morphtarget for huge environmental dataset?
Author: noiv
Created: 2011-11-04 23:42:18+00:00
State: open

I made first contact with three.js and Webgl and managed it to visualize daily ozone levels with the DAT web-gl globe and found out morphtargets are used to morph from one mesh into the other. I'm quite excited by the results and want to go one step further: Yearly CO2 emissions. The CDIAC has a data set covering 1751-2007 on a 1° grid. That would result in 257 meshes having a geometry of 180*360 cubes each (a bit less as the poles would make 2 cylinders only).

Loading time is not an issue, but is this the right approach to animate 16.5 million data points? Is there an upper limit of morph targets?

Many thanks for any input.

--noiv