What is this about?
3D on a 2D map
Brief ephemeral animations shear the terrain and use motion to enhance depth perception. Advantages of 3D visualizations and motion are combined with the properties of 2D maps without increasing the complexity of user interactions.
Feature-rich
We provide different options to render beautiful terrain maps in real time. Choose a base map, customize relief shading, elevation colors, plan oblique relief, and more. Check out the large map .
Accessibility
Elastic Terrain works in modern web browsers, and relies on the power of WebGL. Shearing Animations as introduced by Willet et al. can be incorporated into any interactive map. View project on GitHub .
References
Willett, W., Jenny, B., Isenberg, T. and Dragicevic, P. (2015).
Lightweight relief shearing for enhanced terrain perception on interactive maps.
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI 2015), Apr 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 3563–3572.