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"Soaring" by Andrew Wyeth, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne Vermont, Photograph by Ken Burris

TopoVista

TopoVista is a software package that allows one to interactively walk (or fly) over a surface defined by a U.S. Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model (DEM). It's based on Right-triangulated Irregular Networks (Algorithmica 30, 2) by Evans, Kirkpatrick, and Townsend.

We are no longer working on TopoVista, but you are welcome to download and use the software.

Screen Shots

Crater Lake
Crater Lake 		Bonneville Dam
Bonneville Dam 		Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon 		Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier

Source code

Version 4.0
October 28, 2003 		Documentation
topo-4.0.tar.gz (1459480 bytes)
topo-4_0.zip (1704890 bytes)
Version 3.0
December 16, 2000 		README-3.0
topo-3.0.tar.gz (602440 bytes)
topo-3_0.zip (605844 bytes)
Version 2.0
March 28, 1999 		README-2.0
topo-2.0.tar.gz (592486 bytes)
topo-2_0.zip (598036 bytes)
Version 1.0
June 30, 1997 		README-1.0
topo.1.0.tar.gz (146867 bytes)
topo_1_0.zip (155282 bytes)

Project Members

This project was part of the Fault Tolerant Network research project.