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Xenon writes "This week's New Yorker magazine has a feature on the efforts of the Wildlife Conservation Society to reconstruct the island of Manhattan 400 years ago, circa 1609. Using 3D Nature's Visual Nature Studio, WCS artist Markley Boyer was able to recreate the pristine wilderness as Henry Hudson saw it, and juxtapose it with photos of the same area today. A striking contrast, showing the potential of photo-realistic 3D landscape visualization."
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redgeographics writes "3D Nature announces a Google Earth exporter for Scene Express
Scene Express now includes a new exporter for creating landscapes in KML/KMZ format for use in Google Earth, or other KML-compliant applications like ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer. Export landcover textures including roads, orthophotos, foliage, 3D structures, water and other landscape elements from any WCS/VNS scene straight to Google Earth for viewing within an interactive 3D planet environment. Adding KML/KMZ support to the powerful landscape creation tools already found in Scene Express makes creating Google Earth scenes from existing projects as easy as clicking Export.
3D Nature Vice President of Research and Development Chris Hanson said, "Google Earth has brought 3D terrain visualization to everyman, broadening the exposure of our entire industry along the way. Making our tools support KML is only natural. While KML is not suitable for all projects, it dovetails nicely with our other capabilities ensuring access to the right tool for almost any job. For environments that require integration into a 3D globe, use Google Earth. For smaller and more detailed areas, use NatureView Express. The great thing is we have one toolset that can produce the same scene in both viewers from one GIS or CAD dataset."
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Scene Express now includes a new exporter for creating landscapes in KML/KMZ format for use in Google Earth, or other KML-compliant applications like ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer. Export landcover textures including roads, orthophotos, foliage, 3D structures, water and other landscape elements from any WCS/VNS scene straight to Google Earth for viewing within an interactive 3D planet environment. Adding KML/KMZ support to the powerful landscape creation tools already found in Scene Express makes creating Google Earth scenes from existing projects as easy as clicking Export.
3D Nature Vice President of Research and Development Chris Hanson said, "Google Earth has brought 3D terrain visualization to everyman, broadening the exposure of our entire industry along the way. Making our tools support KML is only natural. While KML is not suitable for all projects, it dovetails nicely with our other capabilities ensuring access to the right tool for almost any job. For environments that require integration into a 3D globe, use Google Earth. For smaller and more detailed areas, use NatureView Express. The great thing is we have one toolset that can produce the same scene in both viewers from one GIS or CAD dataset."
Official press release"
3D Nature's Scene Express gets WorldWind Support 1 comment
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XenonofArcticus writes "3D Nature announced and demonstrated Scene Express support for exporting to NASA's WorldWind 3D Virtual Globe tool at the First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference in Boulder, Colorado. Chris Hanson delivered a presentation showing how the same GIS-based landscape built in Visual Nature Studio could be authored to multiple realtime 3D Landscape tools, and compared and contrasted the abilities of each. Landscape tools demonstrated included VRML, 3D Nature's NatureView, Google Earth and now NASA WorldWind. WorldWind is a rapidly-evolving Open Source 3D Virtual Globe tool. WorldWind support is now part of Scene Express 2, an add-on for Visual Nature Studio for authoring realtime landscapes, and is available as a free update to current Scene Express 2 owners."
Ancient Rome in 3D for Google Earth
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From the Google Earth Blog : "For the first time, Google has published a 3D model of an ancient city as a layer viewable in Google Earth. For decades archaeologists, students, scholars, and architects have studied the history and remains of Rome and worked to understand the city's history. The new layer, found under Gallery->Ancient Rome 3D, depicts Rome in the year 320 AD - at the peak of its development with over a million inhabitants. At this time it was the largest metropolis in the world."
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