Visualization and Design Systems for Road Infrastructure

Transportation infrastructure provides a vital
service for the functionality of a city. The
efficient design of road networks poses an
interesting topic in computer science for digital
content developers. For civil engineers, the
visualization of analysis results on infrastructure
both efficiently and intuitively is crucial.
Solutions to both these topics are presented. A
system built around tensor field design is
proposed to model street networks. Necessary
background information is discussed and a set of
tools are developed. Generated street networks are
shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system.
To visualize bridge analysis results, a unique system
is discussed. Methods used to procedurally model a
bridge and visualize analytical information over the
generated model in an
intuitive manner are detailed.

Autorentext

Gregory Esch graduated from Oregon State University with BSdegrees in CS and CpE. He also received his MS degree in CS withan emphasis in computer graphics from Oregon State University.There, he studied scientific visualization and proceduralmodeling techniques. He is currently employed at NVIDIACorporation as an OpenGL Driver Engineer.

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Transportation infrastructure provides a vitalservice for the functionality of a city. Theefficient design of road networks poses aninteresting topic in computer science for digitalcontent developers. For civil engineers, thevisualization of analysis results on infrastructureboth efficiently and intuitively is crucial.Solutions to both these topics are presented. Asystem built around tensor field design isproposed to model street networks. Necessarybackground information is discussed and a set oftools are developed. Generated street networks areshown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system.To visualize bridge analysis results, a unique systemis discussed. Methods used to procedurally model abridge and visualize analytical information over thegenerated model in anintuitive manner are detailed.