CloudScape^® Tools for 3-Dimensional, Physics-based Cloud Visualization

CloudScape^® is a family of software tools which facilitate the modeling and radiometrically accurate visualization of weather clouds, munitions- and bomb-generated dust clouds. Shown in the image on the left are CloudScape VR views of stratus, 1000-lb munitions and tank-round clouds in Performer^® Town. Background and cultural features are imaged with MultiGen-Paradigm's Vega™ toolkit.

The CloudGen™/Weather Toolkit is a collection of tools for generating 3-dimensional databases for modeling and visualizing weather clouds. The toolkit includes a non-real-time visualization capability. Shown in the image on the right is a broken stratus layer cyclically tiled in a 3 by 3 pattern. 

The CloudGen™/Battlefield Toolkit is a collection of tools for generating 3-dimensional databases for modeling and visualizing munitions clouds. Shown on the left are three times in the evolution of the dust cloud resulting from the detonation of a tank round optimally buried in moist, cohesive soil. Note the progressive decrease in the self-shadowing of the dark (right) side of the dust cloud as the cloud opacity decreases and the sunlight penetrates further into and through the cloud.

CloudScape^® VR is a module for the real-time, quantitative visualization of 3-dimension clouds in the visible and infrared bands. This product works with MultiGen-Paradigm's Vega™ toolkit and their SensorVision™ module. Shown on the right is a split image with a Vega view of two munitions dust clouds in Performer Town on the upper left and a SensorVision view in the visible on the lower right.

For more information click on the hyperlinks above, download some of our documentation, or send email to clouds@visidyne.com.