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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
Data is stored in Illustra Database System
  • Terrain shape data - elevation and color data
  • Embedded object data - objects that are on the surface
VRML representation is created in real time when requested
The same data may be visualized in various ways (terrain, objects)
Parameters like resolution, size, altitude magnification, etc. are set by the user

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