flat network (no Z)
slight Z curvature
strong Z curvature
strong Z curvature
strong Z curvature
After a bit of struggle with the management of a 3d grid, the advantage is there: it’s now easy to generate a road network in 3D, with automatic connection of the streets while generating them. It’s a simple brute force & unsupervised generation algorithm, but it is memory efficient and error less.
Just to explain a bit the images above: the cubes are the cells of the road grid. Only the required one are created during road generation. There are connected to each other to speed up the proximity tests once a now road segment is added. I’ll measure the generation time soon, but it’s already quite fast regarding to the first test made several days ago in processing.