VR GIS
This page updated: February, 2011

AI CA GA NN

• 3d AI
• Amit J. Patel, Rudy Rucker, Craig W. Reynolds, and Paul Bourke explain game action.
• A* Route Finding: A Star Tutorial By Patrick Lester. . Route Finding. .Vehicle Routing. . The Game AI Page Pathfinding. .Artificial Intelligence Depot. .Amit's Game Programming Information.
• VR GIS AStar Pathfinder: Scenario Editor.
• Life™ has Cellular Automata (CA) links and information
• Genetic Neural Nets ... Mattias DelphiNEAT

3d Models

• 3d Models.
• Game Models: 3dcafe model meshes, amazing3d, the3dstudio, and polycount for actors.
• Textures: paul bourke textures .. lemog textures .. NVidia Textures (Megabyte zip) somewhere ... many more are transient .. Google Textures
• Modelers
• Pascal sourced Model Scene Editor does 3D export to POV-Ray™, exHaust is a liquidgas game development kit (in German.. or it used to be), and there is Geoblock for geoscience datasets.
• Open Source C modelers: blender3d, OpenFX is "an Open-Source 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite", Crystal Space is a 3D modeler (Source only).
• Actor Editors: anim8or(0$) or MilkShape 3D(> $20). A Glscene based Scene editor: COSMOS 4D.

3d_Objects

• 3d Objects.
• Vegetation
• Classify:
WES Major Classification Systems
• United Nations Food Agriculture Organization: FAO
• FAO: Land Cover Classification System (LCCS)
• Federal Geographic Data Committee Vegetation Subcommittee
• FGDC Approved Vegetation Classification Standard
• Terrestrial Vegetation of the United States, The National Vegetation Classification System (The Nature Conservancy)
• About Gap
• Attributes
• USDA: PLANTS is 7 meg of this: "ABAM4","Abama americana (Ker-Gawl.) Morong ","=Narthecium americanum","Liliaceae"...
• Cowardin Wetland Riparian Ecotypes EcoRegions Physical Regions
• Display
• L systems were pioneered by Dr. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz in his (papers) to simulate the growth of plant life.
• Creation and rendering of realistic trees by Jason Weber and Joseph Penn inspired program and Delphi source: TReal Trees v0.1, © 2002 Ton van den Heuvel. Images: Trees in North America , Minnesota Power : Tree Book, The National Arbor Day Foundation
• VR GIS TReal Tree Editor
• Soils
• Soil types
• Soil samples
• Water
• Hydrology
• Subsurface Drainage
• Climate Weather
• Clouds: cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus
  Info: PSC Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique
  Images: Clouds
• VR GIS Clouds : Cube Editor.
• Disasters
• Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Tsunami, Floods, Dam breaks, Earthquakes, Landslides
• Transportation
• A* Route Finding : See AI path
• Railroads
• Racetracks: Rars Racing, Physics of Racing, and Racer (c) Ruud van Gaal also has links to racing information.
• Roads
• Airports
• Seaports / Waterways / Oceans..Seas..Lakes
• Urban
• Cities, Boundaries, Names..Locations
• USGS : National Map.
• Country : Information.
• Country : Names
• Buildings
• VR GIS Mazes randomly generated mazes as urban interiors
• Growth-Movement : See AI/Life: Cellular Automata

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