8.1VR8.1.1Wedefineatopographic3D-mapasacartographicrepresentationofalandscapesectioninaperspectiveviewcombinedwithtopographicinformationthatisdefinedinalegend.8.1.28.1.32Atopographic3D-mapinheritssomeimportantpropertiesoftraditionaltopographicmapsaslistedbyHakeandGruenreich(1994):(1)Thegeographicalpositionofallelementsisdefinedandcanbeextractedbythereader.(2)Allmappedelementsbelongtodefinedcategories.(3)Thesecategoriesofmapelementsdifferclearlyfromeachother.3Animportantdifferencetotraditionaltopographicalmapsisthevisualizationoftopographicalcontext.Intheorthogonalperspectiveofa2D-map,thetopographyissymbolizedbycontours,terrainpointsandshadedrelief.Inthetopographic3D-map,thetopographiccontextofamapelementisvisualizeddirectlyintheperspectiveview,aslongastheelementsarevisible.Thustheinterpretationoflandscapeformsbecomesmuchmoreintuitive.4Athree-dimensionalinteractivetopographicmapdoesnotknowanyspatial,thematicandtemporallimitations.Itofferstheuserthepossibilitytochooseitsvirtualpositionwithinthemap,permittingamoreaccurateperceptionandinterpretationofthespatialandotherrelatedinformation.Weareconvincedthattheuseofthistechnologyinthedomainofcartographydomainwouldsignificantlyimprovethequalityofcartographicproductsandopennewareasofapplication.8.2,4:(Tessellatingmodel)(Vectormodel)(Hybridmodel)(Analyticalmodel)celldecompositionspatialoccupancyenumeration2.(wireframerepresentation,WFR))(boundaryrepresentation,BR)8.31DEMDEMSAR/INSAR2INSAR473DCM,:,,;,,,,,,,3DCM:;;,8.41DTMDEMDigitalElevationModeDEMDTM2DEM--DEMDEM:(Grid)(TIN)4TINTINDEMTINDEMVIP,VeryImportantPointDH,DropHeuristic8.512,3,3,3,32:(MBR)(IBR),3CAD(ThreeDimensionalCityModel,3DCM)3DCMIBRMBR,3,,MBR,3,313BOXDEM234533DMAXCADMultiGen.3ds,.dxf,.x,.dwg58.61LODLODLeverofDetail348.7OpenGLOpenGraphicsLibrary:SGIOpenGLOpenGLOpenGLARBOpenGLSGIHPMicrosoftIntelIBMSUNDECAT&TUnixOpenGLWindows95/98WindowsNTMacosBeosOS/2UnixOpenGLAPIOpenGL1BezierNurbs23RGBAColorIndex4OpenGLRGBRGB56BlendingAntialiasingFog7DoubleBuffering8OpenGLWindows9,OpenGLDepthCueMotionBlurOpenGLOpenGL32WindowsWindows98/NTOpenGL32.DLLGlu32.DLLOpenGL1001115gl3002OpenGLglu43OpenGLOpenGLOpenGL331auxOpenGLOpenGLWindows98/NT4WindowswglOpenGLWindows5Win32API66OpenGLRGBRealtimeLODLever-of-detaiDOLDynamicObjectLoadingCulling/8.83DGIS1FullyImmersiveVR):Userheadsets)(data-glove)(data-suits)360VREVRE,2Semi-ImmersiveVR):User60VRE+IMAXTheatresVRE3Non-ImmersiveVRorDeskTop):UserjoystickVREFish-tank)4On-LineVR):whichallowestheDistributedUsertovirtuallygettogetherandinteractwitha3DworldontheWeb.()()200227p86-8819992,,20023..20008089200120023,200212002AndreaTerribilini,Mapsintransition:developmentofinteractivevector-basedtopographic3D-maps,Proceedingsofthe19thInternationalCartographicConference,Ottawa,Canada:InternationalCartographicAssociation,1999,p993-1001ChristianHaeberling,Symbolizationintopographic3D-maps:conceptualaspectsforuser-orienteddesign,Proceedingsofthe19thInternationalCartographicConference,Ottawa,Canada:InternationalCartographicAssociation,1999,p1037-1044DirkBartz,MichaelMeiner,TobiasHüttner,OpenGL-assistedocclusioncullingforlargepolygonalmodels,Computers&Graphics,1999,23,p667-679RickGerms,GertVanMaren,EdwardVerbree,FrederikW.Jansen,Amulti-viewVRinterfacefor3DGIS,Computers&Graphics,1999,23,p497-506