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Realtime Terrain Synthesis Using DEM Data

  • Journal of Knowledge Information Technology and Systems
  • Abbr : JKITS
  • 2011, 6(1), pp.131-140
  • Publisher : Korea Knowledge Information Technology Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Published : February 28, 2011

노성남 1 SUN JEONG KIM 1 Song Chang Geun 1

1한림대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we propose a realtime terrain synthesis algorithm to generate realistic terrain using DEM(Digital Elevation Model) data. Through analysis of the given DEM data, we extract samples which has the information about directions of terrain patches. Users input guidelines with virtual canvas and then we compose the sample data as following directions of guidelines to build a realistic terrain. In order to remove cracks between terrain patches, we use filtering and height normalization. Users can generate a new terrain interactively because we apply GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) rendering technique. Using the proposed algorithm we synthesized realistic terrains based on user-input various types of guidelines.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.