Landscape Modeling and 3D Visualization

People ask me, "What do you do?".  Well, pictured above are all the layers of information that I can manage and manipulate with Visual Nature Studio (VNS) and what a little Photoshop can do, too ...

... and, above, is a different "Camera position" of the 3D model I made for sale at Imagekind called "Horseshoe Park", Colorado ...

... and here is another Camera perspective of the "Horseshoe Park", Colorado 3D environmental model in VNS ...

... and here is another Camera perspective of the "Horseshoe Park", Colorado 3D environmental model in VNS ...

... and here is yet another Camera perspective of the "Horseshoe Park", Colorado 3D environmental model in VNS ...

... and here is yet another Camera perspective of the "Horseshoe Park", Colorado 3D environmental model in VNS ...

... and finally, here is the Camera position and wide-screen image I rendered; and now sell on my Imagekind website. Click the image (above).

... and finally, here is the Camera position and wide-screen image I rendered; and now sell on my Imagekind website. Click the image (above).

... and with that done, you can create a Planemetric Camera overhead of the entire Model, and make Map products as a research Cartographer at the U. S. Geological Survey in 2003 ... or the first Map that I made, out on my own, of Fauquier County, Virginia; after sailing, surfing and traveling for five years ... a "walk-about" ... after I left the U. S. Geological Survey. For sample downloads, see the link at the bottom for the Imagemap Samples page.

A + B = C

Request a MS Office PowerPoint Presentation of my work in:

Part A: Theory of landscape modeling and visualization, filename:  part_a.ppt , filesize: 60 Mb

... PPT file plus one animation, as a Zip file:  part_a.zip , filesize: 95 Mb

Part B: Application of landscape modeling and visualization, filename:  area51.ppt , filesize: 170 Mb

... PPT file plus seven animations, as a Zip file: area51.zip , filesize: 515 Mb

Part C ?  What you can do with Visual Nature Studio (VNS) and the appropriate data.

Contact us; and we can Reply with the PowerPoint Slide Show(s) attached (file size limitations on this website). I will cut a CD if data limits restrict my side or your side of sending / receiving email attachments.  Single animation files are from 22 Mb to 140 Mb in size.  And, here is a 2009 proposal for VNS Version 3 training at USGS for cartographers: filename Visualization Training v3c.pdf, filesize: 2.86 Mb ).  And my guide for creating the Photoshop artwork from the VNS models that put on my Imagekind website: filename BailiwickLoggishspearLV1.4.pdf, filesize 1.08 Mb ) Note: both documents not approved by 3D Nature or Alpha Pixel.  See 3D Nature's free download of their "3D Nature Academy" training by clicking HERE.

"Three-dimensional thinking and analysis in the geospatial sciences: design, modeling and printing / framing for over 40 years.  I wrote my first Fortran 4 program on a IBM 360, with perforated paper tape, back in 1968 in The Hague, Netherlands.  When I came back to The States, all they taught was the mandatory typing class!  On to the University of Idaho for geography and computer mapping on a IBM 370 with card decks and Calcomp plotters with SYMVU, SYMAP and CALFORM, and shaded relief overprinted characters on line printers. At the National Geographic Society, Cartographic Division, I continued map assembly with quarterly Magazine inserts but learned shaded relief techniques from artist Tibor Toth, who hand painted, and his protege John Bonner, who airbrushed, and began painting map relief art at home by hand, in my spare time. At the Office of Research at U. S. Geological Survey under Dr. Joel Morrison, I helped convert manual cartography to digital processes with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and added research in GIScience with NCGIS and UCGIS. I am knowledgeable of the cartographic design, assembly processes, computers and software, used to build 3D models and generate large-format images and fly-through animations from large area environmental models … but now in retirement, I continue cartography as a hobby by processing and painting with the old and reliable digital brush, … a trackball."   Dave Catts