Great Trails
View. Explore. Experience. 

During August of this year we had the opportunity to trial our Installation concept at a local Tourist Information Centre (TIC). The goal...

We have the opportunity of trialing an Installation of Great Trails at a local Tourist Information Centre (TIC), this is a great chance...

Previous posts have been concerned with the technology behind the Great Trails model, but for this one we thought we would discuss some...

The base Great Trails model contains a lot of information, the height map and imagery data ensure an accurate representation of the...

Probably the greatest influence on the feeling of being in a place like the Lake District is the characteristic contours and colours of...

Our goal is to cover large areas of a destination with Explore levels to give the user the best sense of place. As with the real...

As the Explore level expands and multiple routes become available, the user getting lost becomes a real possibility, much as is the case...

Typically a computer game is broken down into a number of levels and there is usually a clear logic behind this. The levels could be...

We expect that people will want to use our kind of model in many ways. To support this we have the Overview Level, where the user can...

One characteristic of our approach is that the three levels (Overview, Explore and Experience) contain significantly different details....

A major advantage of using Games Engine technology is the in-built ability to model real world environments to a highly realistic level...

One of the unique aspects of the Great Trails approach is the multi-level and detailed nature of the model. As previously mentioned we...

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago we acquired a Leap Motion device to assess if it could be used to provide a contactless interface...

We believe how the user interacts with the model will be very important and this presents many interesting possibilities. We discussed...

When navigating the model, the view direction changes constantly, presenting relative positions of the fells that is different to the...

The general concept for Great Trails has developed over many years and frankly is not new, with the history of terrain modelling going...

One of the advantages of a custom and curated model is that the information displayed can be constantly expanded and tailored to user...

The model may be used to display a vast amount of data, ranging from usual map data (such as place, lake and fell names) and business...

The user interface (UI) to the model is very important and the best option depends on the usage scenario. At the moment we are...

In a 3D model of the Lake District a good representation of the water bodies is always going to be important. This is quite tricky for...