- 3DEM
Interactive OpenGL 3D viewer with flyby and animation capabilities. Reads most familiar US DEM formats and can export to common image and terrain formats. [Win95/98/ME/2000]
http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Atlas - The FlightGear mapping utility
Produce and display charts of the world for users of FlightGear, an open source flight simulator. Includes map creator and atlas viewer. Can also be used stand alone. Under development, GPL. [Win32(cygwin),Linux]
http://atlas.sourceforge.net/
(Added: Sat Apr 01 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Blueberry3D
A program for designing and creating virtual landscapes utilizing real map data or synthetic data from fractals. Fractals are also used to dynamically extend the data and level of detail. [Win 98/SE/Me/2k]
http://www.blueberry3d.com/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Demeter Terrain Rendering Engine
A cross-platform, open source terrain rendering engine. Written as a stand-alone compnent that can be easily integrated into any kind of application. [OpenGL]
http://www.terrainengine.com/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- G-Graphix
Makers of G-Vista, G-Scene, G-Render Library, software components for CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/Web-productions to interactively fly over huge contiguous terrains. Target market: high end professional.
http://www.g-graphix.de/english/home/index.htm
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Generating Terrain
An older (1996) collection of documentation, source code, and programs for generating and visualizing terrain.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6902/terrain.html
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Genova
Premier demonstration site for G-Vista Web technology. '3D Flight Over Switzerland' uses 25 meter satellite imagery to build 3D scenes to be streamed and visualized over the internet.
http://www.geonova.ch/home_en.htm
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Height Map Editor
Free program that edits, generates, and manipulates terrain height maps. These can be used in terrain renders, which are used in games, applications, and demos. Web base manual available. [Windows and Linux]
http://hme.sourceforge.net/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- HeightField Lab
Generate, manipulate, display, load and save heightfields and then use a raytracer such as POV-Ray to generate the final output image. (free, with code) [Linux]
http://www.redshift.com/%7eyramin/atp/hflab/
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- InReality (tm) Model Viewer
Visualization tool that permits the user to view RealSite (tm) models within a virtual environment. [IRIX, Win32]
http://www.govcomm.harris.com/realsite/
(Added: Sun Apr 02 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- KLevel Heightfield Tool
A heightfield modelling tool designed to mimic Leveller for Windows. It features an OpenGL preview and many brush-like tools. (free, with code) [Linux]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/klevel/
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Landsraad
Alpha version of a terrain editor/viewer for BeOS.
http://www.geocities.com/stratgis/landsraad/index.html
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Leveller by Daylon Graphics
Heightfield, bumpmap, and terrain modeler for Windows. Has an active user community with many 3rd party plugins. Downloadable demo with limited functionality.
http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller/index.htm
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Mapper
Earth data processing and visualization system. It can combine data from different sources and in varying formats to a single view. It is not an image processing tool but rather builds a 3dimensional model of the earth. [Win95/NT] 1997
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/mapper.html
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- MapRender3D
Modeling and visualization software package that creates relief maps in both 2D and 3D using either proprietary global elevation database or public domain DEMs. Features include projections, texture draping, lighting, shading, and elevation color graduation.
http://www.maprender3d.com/
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Natural Scene Designer
Raytracing based landscape renderer with object (trees, rocks, lakes) creation, placement and animation capabilities. Interactive planimetric, and 3D modeling viewpoints. Imports USGS and STDS DEMs. [Windows and Mac]
http://naturalgfx.com/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- nineteen70five
Specializes in the import of GIS data sets and creation of a GIS viewer, which allows the user to "fly" over a 3-D image of their data sets.
http://mzone.mweb.co.za/residents/jhammes/main.htm
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- OBVIO
A free win32 3D viewer which demonstrates Dynamic Level of Detail (DLOD), based on OpenGL and GLUT, only reads USGS DEMs. Appears to be in active development.
http://www.geo-visualisierung.de/demo.htm
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- OpenGL Terrain Engine
An experimental OpenGL interactive terrain viewer with surface textures, clouds and reflective water capabilities. (free, with code) [Win32]
http://ohad.visual-i.com/exper/exper.htm
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- OpenSkies Training System
Free authoring tool for virtual environment training system. A low cost PC-based system which incorporates trainee performance measurement capability. [Win9x/NT/2k]
http://www.openskies.net/training/index.html
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Skyline Software System
A complete, modular software collection to serve photo-based 3D interactive environments over the internet or intranets. (free, no code) [Win9x/NT/2k]
http://www.skylinesoft.com/corporate/corporate_home.asp
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- SpatialAce
Toolkit for building interactive real-time applications with 2D or 3D presentations, from simulators and command and control (C3I) to surveillance and traditional GIS systems. [Win9x/NT/2k]
http://www.spatialace.com/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- TechNature Library
A collection of rendering, mathematics, and texturing functions that use fractals to "grow" everything from plants to planets with seamless procedural textures. (shareware, with source code) [Requires DirectX 6.0+]
http://www.tanzanite.to/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Terrain Modelling
A number of scholarly pages covering visualization techniques, terrain morphing, generating fractal surfaces, data filtering, and a mars planetary model. (free, with code)
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke/terrain/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- TerrainPro by MultiGen-Paradigm
Produce large area terrain databases with real-world data and 3D culture (eg. roads) and imagery, skin generation, and texture mapping. Target market: Professional [Win98/NT,SGI]
http://www.multigen.com/products/terrpro.htm
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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