Project Number

115

Title

T_Vision

Description

Interactive networked visualization of a virtual globe through high-resolution satellite data.

Contact

Joachim Sauter, Gerd Grueneis

Affiliation

ART+COM AG

Address

Budapesterstrasse 44 
D-10787 Berlin, Germany 
+49.30.254173 
+49.30.25417555 fax

E-mail

gruen@artcom.de

WWW

http://www.artcome.de/projects/terra/

Year

1995

Reference

SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

T_Vision is a broad-band application research project that provides a distributed virtual globe as a multimedia interface to visualize any kind of data related to a geographic region. "The virtual globe is modeled from high-resolution spatial data and textured with high-resolution satellite images." 
 
"A T_Vision database and real-time rendering system has been developed to handle this huge amount of data. Seamless links between different levels of detail allow continuous zooming from a global view down to recognizable features of only a few centimeters in size."  
 
"The project is based on the concept of a transparent and worldwide broad-band, networked topography and surface data bank." Zoom data is integrated on the fly from distributed data resources. "A special T_Vision user interface based on a large real globe ('earth-tracker') facilitates the user's navigation around the virtual globe, so the users has full control over which information to view, when, and at which location."

Sight

graphics workstation, ATM networking, projection display

Sound

Touch

earth-tracker interface (large track ball)

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

2 - Prototype, Components, Testing

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

203 - interactive paradigm, technique

Secondary

301 - visualization

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented. 
 
"A successful ATM T_Vision test network between Tokyo and Berlin was established in October 1994. A third node will be added this year, in Sunnyvale, California USA." (1995)

 

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