The WMS-X3D servlet is up on SVN.

 _{Showing California Coast at 200 x height/depth exaggeration.}

_{Note the saucer shape is an artifact of viewing the file under trial license in BS Contact Geo.}

_{The raised light colored section next to that is a 3D watermark.}

_{Same section, showing geometry generated without texture mapping.}

_{Same region in upper left corner now extending to mid continent to near equator,}

_{showing image brightening, 3D embossed watermark with matching overlay "Aniviza Inc." at bottom.}

_{So far there have been no code examples that demonstrate just how to get from 2D sat/bathy/topo}

_{images to 3D}, _{though there have been several complete globes already in 3D.}

_{For more information check out the working group home page.}

WMS-X3D is an experimental WMS servlet that sub-samples ginormous NASA Blue Marble image sets ( try 21,800 x 21,800 times 6 tiles !) as well as 1/12 as large bathymetric sonar and topographic radar scans which are converted into 3D tiles on the fly. The tiles are returned as either X3D Geospatial format, or as X3D Interchange format.WMS-X3D features mosaic sampling of tiled images, pre-scaled data, user definable brightness levels, sea levels, and ability to texture overlay or 3D emboss. It also returns PNG WMS requests, which it uses internally for both Blue Marble Mosaic URL composition in the X3D Texture URL, as well as actually using the data from bathy and topo to generate 3D coordinates which are fed to either a GeoElevationGrid or IndexedFaceSet situated in a Scene.

A 10 cent/hour Amazon EC2 test server is currently hosting all data and Glashfish v2 container, which means Aniviza can deliver to you your own Virtual World Virtual Server ( VWVS ) and have it online in virtually minutes. So far, the 1CPU 2Gb low end EC2 has been reasonably stable during development, if somewhat slow for the task. Some performance improvements can be made by caching requested tiles, and breaking the mosaic down into smaller chunks.

Dr. Don Brutzman at NPS MOVES Institute has kindly offered to host a VWRS ( Virtual World Real Server ) instance in their high performance cluster which will be much more capable of handling exposed traffic.