Software component for realtime 3D terrain visualization

Features

• 3D-Display of terrain data consisting of elevation data (DEM) and texture image (satellite/ortho-photo).

• Self-developed compression scheme for terrain data.

• Dynamical reload and decompression of terrain data directly from CD-ROM while moving over the terrain. Continuous adaption of level of detail depending on the distance from eyepoint to terrain.

• Additional display of arbitrary 3D models or 2D icons/text labels within the terrain for identifying points of interest.

• Realized as ActiveX-control. Can thus be integrated into any ActiveX container (e.g. Access, Director, Internet-Explorer).

• Flexible control from the host application due to large interface. For example realize 3D hyperlinks directly from the terrain using a host script reacting on G-Vista's click-events.

• Arbitrary movement in realtime along all six spatial degrees of freedom

• Easy navigation over the terrain using mouse or keyboard.

• Built upon the G-Render-Library. Supports DirectX or OpenGL as underlying rendering API. Thus executable on virtually any state-of-the-art graphics card.

• Developed from the ground up by G-Graphix. Arbitrarily extensible on customer demands. No royalties or licensing liabilities.

• Coming up soon: Server module G-Vista-Server for server based creation of 3D-views and QuicTime VR panoramas allowing multistep scalable web applications.

Applications

• CD-ROM-Productions

  • 3D-Atlases

  • 3D-Route planning

• Info-Kiosk-Systems

• Internet-Services

• Weather forecast.

• Route planning integrating actual information.

Contact us. We are open for your suggestions.

Screenshots

View from the Lake Lucerne to the Pilatus mountain (Switzerland)

View from the Pilatus peak on the Lake Lucerne (Switzerland)

Flight over the Alps near Garmisch (Germany)

Flight over the Lake Garda (Italy)