MeshToTiff

description

This Rhinoceros V6/V7 plugin creates a high precision grayscale 16 bit tiff file with the heightmap representation of the selected mesh using a single surface as reference for depth calculation. The projection is perpendicular to the surface. It uses the libtiff library by BitMiracle: https://github.com/BitMiracle/libtiff.net

usage

MeshToTiff

launch plugin with the MeshToTiff command

Select surface

select a single reference surface

Select mesh

select a single mesh to calculate

image size U (pixels), Image size V (pixels)

set tiff image size in pixels

Depth of black color

set the depth of the black color (anything over this value will be truncated to black)

Default depth

set the default depth (depth of the pixels where the mesh faces are not present)

Use Zmin or Zmax?

if the projection creates multiple points with this option you can choose if you want to use the nearest or the furthest one for the grayscale level calculation.