Wireframe
Creating a wireframe from a set of points ‒ Part 1
Ron Reid outlines in Part 1 of a two part post how to construct a 3D object from a set of points that are not connected to each other using Leapfrog Mining and Leapfrog Geo.
Read MoreRest In Peace Topographic Contours – Part 3
Paul Hooykaas presents an interesting historical background to the construction of topographic contours and why this representation of topography is still used in the resource industry.
Read MoreRest In Peace Topographic Contours – Part 2
If you shouldn’t use topographic contours for 3D modelling, then what should you use? In this blog post, I show the superiority of 3D interpolation by contrasting the stark difference between 2D and 3D interpolated LIDAR surfaces.
Read MoreWill Gemcom produce a Leaped Frog out of Leapfrog?
Gemcom recently announced the ‘Dynamic Shells’ update to their Surpac software, which is described as a fast implicit modeller. This is a module that jumps and croaks like Leapfrog, and regardless of whether it actually works like Leapfrog is a moot point. It doesn’t really matter because in marketing, it’s all about perception.
Read MoreIs sectional digitisation in geological modelling still considered “industry best practice”?
For geological modelling, resource geologists generally favour the use of sectionally hand-digitised wireframe models for resource estimation, but in 2012 is this still considered industry best practice? Jun Cowan, the conceptual founder of Leapfrog software, discusses this issue with a familiar example.
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