Research on Visualization Techniques in Large Scale Virtual Battlefield

As the development of computer graphics, visualization is widely used in the simulation of war. A bunch of techniques are proposed and employed in virtual battlefield visualization. This paper focuses on the summarization of these visualization techniques that can be applied in virtual battlefield. Firstly, the paper researches on the elements of environment and basic facilities, and classifies the visualization objects in battlefield to points, lines, surfaces and volumes by the character of these elements. We also analyze the methods of visualization for these elements. Then we study on the acceleration technology for the complexity virtual battlefield. Finally, visualization results for the four types of element are given, and from these results we can get that abstract information in battlefield are much more understandable and intuitional by visualization so as to assistant the commander to make decision.