SPACEYES, your 3D partner!

Expert in cartography since 1989, SPACEYES edits a line of software dedicated to professional who wants to communicate on their projects in the domains of urbanism, impact study, real estate...

SPACEYES offers you a complete solution, from the performance of the 3D model from your cartographic data, to the broadcasting of your projects on the Web!

With SPACEYES, present your projects in an interactive and comprehensible way for everybody!

SpacEyes3D Builder allows you to visualize in 3D all your cartographic data. Perfectly complementary to your?GIS tool, SpacEyes3D Builder?is an attractive software opened to all.

SpacEyes 3D Builder

SpacEyes 3D Builder is a sophisticated and attractive software opened to all which allows :

Virtual reality & 3D real time simulation

Land imaging & interactive modeling of the landscape

Autonomy and freedom of creation,

Intuitive use,

Use all your data instantaneously: imagery, GIS data, 3D models,...

Unlimited dataset size,

No required data translation

Digital Terrain Model (DTM)

Direct use of georeferenced DTM rasters to create the surface,

Full resolution display : no limits on DTM size or resolution,

Partial loading according to area displayed,

Level of detail (LOD) dynamically adaptive,

Interactive choice of LOD,

Interactive editing of exaggeration of relief,

Automatic elimination of undetermined (‘NoData’) areas,

Tool to create DTM from topographic vector set : points, contour lines, 3D lines

Tool to create DTM from ASCII XYZ files or regular vector grids,

Reprojection tool,

Tile mosaicking tool,

Tool for relief analysis and visualization (slope, aspect, contour lines, shading, color relief).

Interactive Information Layer Manager

Interactive management of objects, orthoimages or GIS vector overlays with cartographic positioning,

Display serveral image layers 

Display order control,

Transparency control,

Hierarchical control (groups, sub groups)

Raster operations between images (addition, multiplication, etc.),

Image shared display (swipe tool),

Layers separable along vertical axis,

Programmable distance of appearance,

Multi-resolution Image management,

Legend tool,

3D contents export (OBJ, Collada DAE)

Module of GIS vector edition

Add/remove objects,

Move/Add/remove points,

Edition of attribute values in the database,

Edition of table scheme (add/delete fields),

Standard format savings (Shapefile, MapInfo)

Thematic views : interactive presentation creation

View / state record,

Animated sequence record,

Layer control,

Search control,

Navigation index dynamically processed from GIS database,

Hierarchical management (groups, sub-groups),

Icon choice, rich text support.

Geolocalization

Geolocalization processed dynamically from GIS database,

Multicriteria search,

Category/sub-category management,

Filtering, ordering options,

Navigation

Real time 3D navigation,

Intuitive navigation system Joystick / Mouse / Keyboard,

Flight / animated mode,

Predefined, trajectory follow-up mode,

Rotation around a given point on the terrain.

Measure tools

Length & surface tools,

Coordinate/altitude of points,

Compute & display of terrain profiles,

Compute azimuth and slope,

Georeferenced intervisibility maps.

Location

Cartographic location of the observer,

Cartographic location of the cursor,

Macro-location: dynamic link with georeferenced 2D image,

Research tool by place from GIS layer.

Display tools

Stereoscopic anaglyph display,

Wireframe display.

Atmosphere

Sky color control,

Horizon level control,

Fog (choice of density, color, ...).

3D draping

Text label tool : to add georeferenced labels (advanced text properties : size, color, font, alignment, etc.)

Image tool to add symbols (transparency supported)

Predefined simple 3D shapes (sphere, box, cone, cylinder, arrows, etc.)

Polyline tool to create interactively vector layouts, automatic adjustment on the terrain,

Object layer management.

Hyperlinks

3D links can be added to other programs or documents.

Image overlay

Direct reading of orthoimages with a large choice of formats (see list below), type ( RGB, gray scale, Lookup table based ) and coding ( integer or floating point 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit),

Recognition of georeferencing,

Full resolution display : no limit on image size or resolution,

Partial loading according to area displayed,

Level of detail (LOD) dynamically adaptive,

Non-blocking continuous loading,

Interactive choice of LOD,

Management of tiled and multiresolution images,

Transparency (alpha channel or transparency code),

Interactive transparency,

Radiometric improvement functions (brightness/contrast),

Image smoothing filters,

Possibility to specify min et max display scales for each layer,

Interactive channel combination for multispectral images,

Tool to convert images in optimized/compressed formats,

Reprojection tool,

Mosaic tool to assemble tiled images,

Image georeferencing using ground control points

Supported image formats

Supported imagery servers

GIS Vector Overlays Representation

Import of 2D/3D vector overlays draped over model or 3D,

Choice of display style (line type, color, etc.),

Use of styles defined in the vector layer is available,

Text/symbol label representation based on attribute value,

Display of information with parameters : tooltips, description files, hyperlinks,

Automatic extrusion for buildings display (constant height, by attribute or Z, plane roof or profiled, roof/wall/edge color choice), automatic texturing (with smart texture sizing),

Full featured thematic classification based on attribute values : automatic classification wizard by value or by interval, individual control of class representation,

Automatic placing of 3D objects (control of insertion point in the 3D object, control of insertion point on GIS objects : centroid, point, interval), automatic orientation according field or geometry, automatic sizing according to field,

Filter by cartographic rectangle or SQL instruction,

Optimization options : minimal displayed size, tiling, vector streaming,

Possibility to specify min et max display scales for each layer,

Wide character support (unicode)

   Supported GIS vectors formats

Supported GIS vector format with connection file

Supported GIS Servers

Complex 3D Objects Import

Import of complex 3D objects (OpenFlight, Terrapage, 3DS, Lightwave, VRML …),

Real time 3D preview with statistics display,

Correction tools (lighting, extraction)

Interactive positioning / resizing of objects,

Management of object textures and materials,

Cartographic placing,

LOD management,

Animated object management,

3D object texture simplification feature (metric based on target resolution),

Texture compression tool.

Supported 3D Object formats

Technical Characteristics:

Minimal configuration

Microsoft Windows 98/2000/ME/XP,

1.5 GHz Processor ,

RAM 256 Mb,

200 Mb of free disk space,

Open GL graphic card.