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Foil 80 T4:GIS - 3D Terrain Rendering in VRML

From A Tutorial on Base Web Technologies CRPC Annual Meeting/NASA Langley/Trip to China -- May 14-17 June 10-13 1996 July 12-18 1996. by Geoffrey Fox
1 Data is stored in Illustra Database System
  • Terrain shape data - elevation and color data
  • Embedded object data - objects that are on the surface
2 VRML representation is created in real time when requested
3 The same data may be visualized in various ways (terrain, objects)
4 Parameters like resolution, size, altitude magnification, etc. are set by the user
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