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DspaceOgreTerrain 3D Terrain Visualization ToolDspaceOgreTerrain is an extension to the DspaceOgre 3D visualization tool that supports real-time visualization of various terrain types, including digital elevation maps, planets, and meshes. DspaceOgreTerrain supports creating 3D representations of terrains and placing them in a scene graph. The 3D representations allow for a continuous level of detail, GPU-based rendering, and overlaying graphics like wheel tracks and shadows. It supports reading data from the SimScape terrain- modeling library. DspaceOgreTerrain solves the problem of displaying the results of simulations that involve very large terrains. In the past, it has been used to visualize simulations of vehicle traverses on Lunar and Martian terrains. These terrains were made up of billions of vertices and would not have been renderable in real-time without using a continuous level of detail rendering technique.
Document ID
20120010426
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Other - NASA Tech Brief
Authors
Myint, Steven
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Jain, Abhinandan
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Pomerantz, Marc I.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 26, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 2012
Publication Information
Publication: NASA Tech Briefs, June 2012
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Report/Patent Number
NPO-47976
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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