From: salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (Bob Salnick)
Subject: Re: Landscapes Database software for VR
Date: 15 Nov 91 05:28:30 GMT



In article <1991Nov12.222725.13469@milton.u.washington.edu>
PR2JBC@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA writes:

>   Maybe I'm just not making myself clear! Is anyone out there working
>with a landscape database which is interpreted and then rendered by
>VR software? Applications springing to mind are NASA astronauts
>training for Mars walks, VR sea-bed exploration, archaeological sims
>of prehistoric landscapes.
>
>Are there any landscape database tools specifically for VR?
>
>Joe


In the Amiga software world, take a look at Scenery Animator (from Natural
Graphics), or look at the July 1991 issue of Amiga World where 5 landscape
generators were reviewed.   My copy of this issue is at work - I will re-post
tomorrow night with the names of the software packages reviewed.  If my
memory serves, more than one of them were capable of working with
Government supplied data files for contours (one example was contours of the
Martian surface, which had been "filled" with water to the author's liking -
Martian seas)

bob
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