Author(s): Mohamed Ait Belaid and Nissreen Altureeki
Article publication date: 2013-09-01
Vol. 31 No. 2/3 (yearly), pp. 125-130.
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Keywords

3Dimension, Stereo Graphic, Virtual Visit, Model, Manama, Bahrain.

Abstract

This research project explains how Three-Dimensional (3D) city models are important and developed all over the world, because it represent the Earth’s surface and give the people the chance to enjoy a virtual visit in cities. It also presents some Techniques used for generating 3D cities, how we used it, and the difficulties we faced. It also shows that The Kingdom of Bahrain started to develop itself and to follow the world in its progress. A mosaic of high resolution aerial photographs was used to reconstruct 3D building models with accurate details. First, we used stereo graphics to determine the rooftops, roads and trees in the 3D window and also we determined the centroid of the roofs. Second, after finishing all roofs we used the tool extrude for extruding the buildings to ground and we used the tool 3D construct to extrude the buildings from the centroid of the roof. So the main goal of this paper was to build 3Dimensional buildings for Manama capital as a case study using available techniques and datasets. The results show that there is many ways to create 3D buildings if the dataset and the software are available, but not all the ways show real 3D city. In the present research we were able to extrude 3D solid buildings with high quality and high accuracy for Manama Center because this work was huge and needed many interpreters or operators with plenty of time.