Subject: Re: PLG files

From: bandit Gangwere <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 21:04:07 -0800

this is a bit off the top of my head.
it seems you want to create a sparse matrix out of the data set.
if you started at the edge, and determined a delta to determine the "flatness",
ie. any value in the interior of a flat area with +/- the delta is removed from the data set
by setting it to a "null" value.
any values which remain determine the edges, which are broken up (prob recursively)
into component triangles.
a more sophisticated method would be to create a data struct with each node being
a point in the original data set, and removing those nodes within the delta
of its neighbors.

another, by hand version,  is create a shape editor, bring in pieces of the shape, and
shrink down the parts.

.............  bandit