The Use of Vrml for Virtual Soil Landscape Modeling
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The utilization of three-dimensional (3-D) graphical design and scientific visualization of the soil landscape continuum is still in its infancy. The objective of this study was to investigate the use of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) to create virtual 3-D soil landscape models representing natural soil landscape components. Virtual Reality Modeling Language is an object-oriented, 3-D graphics language suitable for stand-alone or browserbased interactive viewing. Our virtual soil landscape models showed the spatial distribution of soil patterns and terrain characteristics. We were able to integrate features from geographic information systems, such as storage and manipulation, with features from scientific visualization, such as 3-D graphical design, animation of objects, interactivity and accessibility via the World Wide Web.
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