Types commonly used throughout Insight3D. This includes Cartesian and cartographic objects and collections, and display conditions.

Types that perform computational geometry algorithms, such as triangulation. These types are commonly used as input to overlays.

Types that perform computational geometry algorithms, such as triangulation and interpolation. These objects are generally used as input to primitives. For example, the triangle mesh can render either polygons on the surface or walls depending on its input.

Types for rendering and organizing terrain and imagery on a globe. Inlays can be layered and turned on/off based on the viewer's altitude or current animation time. Both JPEG 2000 (.jp2) and AGI’s image format (.pdttx) are supported. For terrain, AGI’s terrain format (.pdtt) is supported.

Types to read and process images using conditioners. Insight3D provides flexible image processing interfaces and built-in conditioners to dynamically perform many image processing tasks, such as adjusting brightness, contrast, and color levels, performing gamma correction, extracting and reordering components, and doing geometric transformations. More generic conditioners, such as the convolution conditioner, can be used to achieve a large number of effects, including sharpening and edge or gradient enhancement. Insight3D supports reading several image formats: BMP, ECW, IMG, JP2, NTF, NITF, PNG, SID, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, PPM, PGM, CLDS, and TGA. Additionally, an image can be loaded directly from memory. Images can be conditioned and are commonly applied to primitives as textures. Both texture generation and caching, with synchronous and asynchronous reading of images from various sources, including FTP and HTTP, are supported.

Types to read and configure playback of video, which can then be used to create dynamic images. The video reader supports streaming from various protocols, and can play a large variety of media formats, codecs, frame rates and frame sizes.

Overlays are used to render objects in 2D screen-space on top of a 3D scene. For example, overlays can be used to display your company's logo, create a heads-up display (HUD), or create a translucent user interface. The texture overlay can render static images, such as a company logo or a UI button, or dynamic images, such as a video feed from a UAV. The panel overlay is used to form hierarchies of overlays, which is useful for creating UI elements, such as toolbars. All overlays support pixel and fractional units, translation, scale, and rotation transformations, and a user defined z-order.

Primitives form the building blocks of a 3D scene. Insight3D provides a wide array of primitives, such as simple primitives to draw points and polylines to more advanced primitives for drawing entire models or polygons that conform to terrain. Primitives are optimized for both static and dynamic data, as primitives are commonly positioned and oriented based on computations performed with DGL that change over time. Primitives can be turned on/off based on the viewer's altitude, distance to viewer, or current animation time. Composite primitives group primitives together to create hierarchies of primitives for efficient rendering, layering and aggreation/deaggregation.

This namespace is incomplete and not ready for use. It is included in this alpha as preview of the final namespace. Render types provide an object-oriented interface to the GPU independent of OpenGL or Direct3D. The renderer includes optimizations, such as choosing optimal vertex layouts and minimizing state changes.

The scene represents the 3D window and all of its state. This namespace includes the camera, for manipulating the viewer's position and orientation, and taking snapshots and videos, picking, stars, clouds, and lighting.

Namespace for the 3D control.