Regional Information Visualizer Assisting Urban Development Planning

Abstract

It is necessary for planners and designers to recognize the regional characteristics exactly for urban development. Various kinds of regional information must be put in order efficiently. The authors are constructing the system to visualize the regional information such as three dimensional representation of the digital terrain model. The visualized data can be imported and exported among the some application programs using the standard CAD data format. So, CG techniques such as the texture mapping can be used easily. This paper reports the process of system development and the conversion process to visualize the regional information, and discusses the future development.