Posts Tagged ‘ski’

I’ve put up 3d Java models of Mad River Glen, Pico, Red River, and Winter Park. Obviously these were pretty easy since I did four in one night. I did the basic work for these late last ski season, so they were more in line already. The earlier work I did was less regular, before [...]

Okay, I said I was going to do this for Breckenridge next, but that’s another resort where I need to make major updates, so that’s in the works, but meanwhile Bear Valley and Kirkwood were easier to crank out so I did that to keep things moving.
I’ve got 14 more to do before the try [...]

In making 3d Java maps of all my resorts, I’m finding that some of the satellite photos I’ve been using are out of date as resort owners open up new areas over time. With Crested Butte I was missing the whole North Face and Teocali bowl, some of the most exciting parts of the mountain.
So [...]

I’ve added Snowbird, UT, Taos Ski Valley, NM, and Vail, CO to the 3D Java lineup.Demicron’s WireFusion is a pretty good tool for this, and it’s nice that it makes fairly small Java applet, and it performs well for being Java. Still, it’s got a lot more tools than I need, and compared to native [...]

I had 3d Java for a handful of resorts before, but they weren’t really part of my system the way it’s set up now. So there are some that I’ve updated and are newly available as “views” the way I have things set up.
I’ve done eight today, so I expect I’ll be able to finish [...]

Okay, now I’m cranking them out. I’ve got new 3D Java for Killington and Arapahoe (mentioned previously). I’ve revised the 3D Java for Jackson Hole, Park City, and Mt. Baldy to bring it into line with the other new stuff. Links to these were broken for a while, but that’s fixed now.
I’m calling it [...]

Demicron has a new version of their very expensive WireFusion Java3D software. I’ve gotten a tryout download that I can use for 30 days, so I’ll be making WireFusion models of all the resorts I have, since the few I do have seem so popular. Now that I’ve got a process down, it should be [...]

I had an error in some code that prevented the 3d display of my models in Flux Player. I’m still not satisfied with the state of 3d plugins at this time. I can’t believe it’s 2007 and we still don’t have a universally accepted and standardized way of displaying 3D models on the web. Demicron’s [...]

Okay, I’ve had the A-Basin t-shirt with Montezuma Bowl for a while, but just now got around to updating the online model and views. The overlay also has a 1000 km scale and lift lines, things which I now need to add back to all the other resorts. Next, though, I’ll make an Arapahoe poster.

I’ve been thinking about how to use my data to rate mountains numerically. Now, I realize that steepness is not the only factor in difficulty, but still, steepness is the only difficulty factor that can be measured completely objectively. So I did histograms of a few resorts, shown here.

What these images show are counts of [...]