posted on 2017-09-01, 15:00authored byKhoury, Gibson, Chen, Savic, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, Djordjevic
We present an interactive 3D WebGIS visualisation system that can show animated 3D floods, terrain, and buildings from a web browser. The system is entirely written in Javascript and using optimised WebGL technology based on the open source Three.js library. It can be used to view and deform terrain and flood surfaces in real-time, provided the modelling data are supplied in standard image formats. Although, in the examples presented below, the .png pictures expressing flood depth were produced via the CADDIES-2D modelling and simulation framework, the system can work online in real-time with any kind of flood modelling tool, as long as it provide 32 bits encoded images in a reasonable time frame. The system can show real-time 3D flood animations and seems to be simple and flexible enough to be used in future multi-player online serious games centred on flood.