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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Once we have defined the display, camera, textures, and shaders that we are going to use, we can define the ElevationMap object.

It works by assigning a height to the terrain image based on the pixel value of the selected points of the image. For example, a single line of an image will provide a slice of the ElevationMap object and a row of elevation points on the 3D surface:

Mapping the map.png pixel shade to the terrain height

We create an ElevationMap object by providing the filename of the image we will use for the gradient information (textures/Map.png), and we also create the dimensions of the map (width, depth, and ...

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