VRML History -- Examples:

Temporal water flow head - Visualization of temporal FEM-data

Temporal geometry of the groundwater flow head influenced by water feed (e.g. rain) and the pumping strategy of a well. The scenario is computed by a FEM simulation program.

some screenshots:

Three viewpoints exists:

Tour starts an animation which moves the viewer in the world by changing the space and time view (144s).
TourTime starts an animation which moves the viewer in the world by changing only the time view (72s). In addition to the animation, the viewer has the possibility to change the space view individually.
Viewpoint stops each animation and keeps the current space and time view. Now the viewer can individually change the space and time view.

Files: gwater.wrz (220 KB) or gwaterE.wrz (221 KB) (with entity list).
The following textures are not necessarily needed, but makes it nicer: logo.gif and topo.jpg (14 KB).

The file gwater2E.wrz (1,42 MB) contains two water heads which are the results of simulations with different parameters (different pumping strategies).

Historical city views - Visualization of temporal GIS-data

This scenario is synthetically constructed but may be the result of a spatio-temporal query to a temporal GIS-database which returns a list of real-world objects with time-variant geometrical representations.

some screenshots:

The following viewpoints exists:

Tour starts an animation which moves the viewer in the world by changing the space and time view (200s).
TourTime starts an animation which moves the viewer in the world by changing only the time view (200s). In addition to the animation, the viewer has the possibility to change individually the space view .
Viewpoint stops each animation and keeps the current space and time view. Now the viewer can individually change the space and time view.
Other viewpoint are specifying different spatial location in the scene.

Files: tempcity.wrz (3 KB) or tempcityE.wrz (3 KB) (with entity list).
The following textures are not necessarily needed, but makes it nicer: water.gif and montain.jpg.
Showing the waves rolling on the beach is possible with wave.class.

more are coming soon.....

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