三维地形可视化研究综述

Overview of 3-D Terrain Visualization Study

地形可视化在可视化研究领域中占有重要地位,受到人们的关注.本文展示了数字地形生成模型的主要分类、国内外学者在地形可视化方面研究的主要方法和成果;提出了分形技术是模拟地形生成的主要方法;指出地形可视化研究中采用的主要开发工具;最后归纳出地形可视化领域的研究趋势和方向.

Terrain visualization has an important position in the field of visualization study, so people pay more attention to it. The paper shows main kinds of building model of digital terrain, great study means and productions .of terrain visualization by foreign and domestic scholars, considers that fractal technology is primary method of building simulating terrain, gives main development tools adopted in the terrain visualization. Finally some study trends and directions of terrain visualization are given.