Demand: Higher levels of expectations from the public driven by the movie and gaming industries lead most people to expect a certain degree of realism from your 3D presentations. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Budgeting is no longer a prohibiting factor to construct 3D models of cities rapidly but do you take [...]
Moving Towards An Integrated 3D World
What is needed from the field of computer graphics is an integrated tool for urban planners and geographers which incorporates geospatial data, 3D content, simulation tools, and the ability to manipulate or change data in a database without altering the scene graph. All software packages have their limitations, but the fragmentation of scientific visualization software [...]
