TunVis: Visualizing specific geologic features for tunnel planning and construction
Horst Otto Meinhart, Rainer Wegenkittl, Eduard M. Groller · 1998
This paper describes a method and a system for visualizing a virtual tunnel through an existing geologic formation and a method for the generation of a camera animation along the tunnel axis. The tunnel is built from geologic data coming from vertical sample drills from the mountain top along the selected tunnel axis. Its wire frame model is then edited by a geologist and image information of the rock appearance is textured onto the tunnel wall, resulting in a photorealistic representation of the expected geologic rock formations.