Iraqi Village Visualization

The Iraqi Village Visualization highlights the use of TerraSim's Urban Details™ technology. Generated using a notional terrain and urban structure, the basic source data for the village was limited to a digital elevation model (DEM), road centerlines, building footprints, and wall locations.

From this very basic source data, Urban Details processing created improvements to the database geometry and visual appearance. Building interiors with rooms, windows, and doors were parametrically generated as were roof parapets, which are typical in this style of construction. Models of satellites, air conditioner vents, and clothes lines are randomly scattered on roofs, based upon user-configurable rules.

In order to improve database appearance, geotypical ground surface multi-textures were used. Shadow highlights were added along the perimeter of buildings and at the base of walls. Similar processing was performed along the roof parapets and roof surfaces, to show shadows cast from roof clutter objects.

Click here to see a fly-through of the Iraqi Village database.

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