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Foil 3 System Overview

From 3D Geographic Information System Rome Lab Quarterly Review for CIV -- October 1 96. by Remek Trzaska, Pawel Roman, Chris Walczak *
Goal: visualization of terrain with multiple kinds of data, including satellite images, maps and weather info
Open Inventor used as a graphic library and a windowing toolkit
"Earth surface" is build with triangles
Imaginary data (maps, satellite images, etc.) is projected on the surface
DEM & imaginary data is compressed using wavelets
Adaptive mesh simplification
Delaunay triangulation

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