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The application of virtual reality systems to the civil and building engineering shows that a great deal of work load is the modeling of a building, or buildings in an urban area. To provide a modeling system which enables the users to construct models of irregular and complicated structures efficiently, and to share the models via network for the design and construction management, a modeling system of application independent, which enables quick modeling of irregular and complicated building structures adapted to VR applications based on Web was developed. The 3D building model can be transferred to the model which can be viewed in different virtual reality environments via a special interface for the data conversion. In the constructing of 3D models of urban objects for urban applications, the digital maps of urban area were used to reduce the work loads.
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Ren, A., Tang, F. (2011). Modeling of Buildings for Collaborative Design in a Virtual Environment. In: Wang, X., Tsai, J.JH. (eds) Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0605-7_14
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