Serious games on water governance at bring people on a particular question togethersuch that they may overcome traditional positions and to trigger positive changes inboth representation and behavior. To play with simplied but realistic watershed char-acteristics, we propose the XGeoTiles framework for the description of watershed ele-vation. It comes in the form of a 3D game board that is divided into hexagonal tiles(2D) and prisms (3D). Additional information such as land cover or stream network isalso accounted.Provided with a digital elevation model, land cover data and an outlet, the soft-ware returns a hexagonal model and a 3D OpenSCAD model that can be printed onappropriate devices. As an illustration, the hexagonal tiling is applied to a slightlyundulating watershed. Results conrm a good representation of the hydrological andlandscape properties when a relevant tile size is used.
Isabelle Charpentier · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2021
Serious games on water governance at bring people on a particular question together such that they may overcome traditional positions and to trigger positive changes in both representation and behavior. To play with simplied but realistic watershed characteristics, we propose the XGeoTiles framework for the description of watershed elevation. It comes in the form of a 3D game board that is divided into hexagonal tiles (2D) and prisms (3D). Additional information such as land cover or stream network is also accounted. Provided with a digital elevation model, land cover data and an outlet, the software returns a hexagonal model and a 3D OpenSCAD model that can be printed on appropriate devices. As an illustration, the hexagonal tiling is applied to a slightly undulating watershed. Results conrm a good representation of the hydrological and landscape properties when a relevant tile size is used.