Landscape Modeling: Digital Technology for Landscape Visualization (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: (USA) Steven Owen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book presents unique perspectives from educators at Harvard University on the methods and steps for creating digital landscape models and landscape visualization. Their digital works integrate computer-aided design (CAD), graphic models, and geographic information systems (GIS) with computer graphics and animation production. This comprehensive approach makes it easier to transform spatial experiences of landscapes and the complex phenomena we encounter in real life into digital formats. The content of the book includes detailed explanations of modeling techniques for each of the four landscape elements—terrain, vegetation, water, and atmosphere—as well as synthetic methods for combining and representing various landscape elements.