What is Magrathea?

  • Magrathea is a web service to easily generate simulation terrain databases for practically anywhere in the world
  • Magrathea provides an easy to use, graphical selection of areas to select for generation
  • Magrathea provides a download link to pull the terrain database once generation is complete
  • Magrathea provides a mechanism to generate a terrain to execute a scenario practically anywhere in the world

Magrathea includes both the services and the terrain source to truly offer terrain generation as a service

  • Currently generates OTF databases and Collada files and Unity game formats, but could be expanded to other formats in the future
  • Note this is not just imagery, these are constructive simulation and game terrain databases

How wall does that scale?

  • StackFrame generated a World Wide Terrain Database, from 60 degrees North to 60 degrees south – a whopping 40,320 geotiles, consuming 144GB of storage
  • This low resolution feature database of the world allows simultaneous vignettes to execute in hotspots around the world without restarting simulation
World Wide Simulation Terrain Database 60 degrees north to 60 degree south
World Wide Simulation Terrain Database 60 degrees north to 60 degree south

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MagratheaSelection

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Zoomed in detail on Kaneohe Bay, Honolulu
Zoomed in detail on Kaneohe Bay, Honolulu. Magrathea terrain includes very detailed feature content for terrain databases.
Magrathea is capable of generating extremely dense feature regions, such as New York City
Magrathea is capable of generating extremely dense feature regions, such as
New York City
OTF representation of Manhattan, NY. Light blue outlines represent buildings
OTF representation of Manhattan, NY. Light blue outlines represent buildings
Magrathea triangulates features into the terrain skin, consistent with the specification
Magrathea triangulates features into the terrain skin, consistent with the specification
Magrathea provides a web-based user interface to add/modify/delete features from the database
Magrathea provides a web-based user interface to add/modify/delete features from the database
Magrathea generated correlated 3D Game engine terrain
Magrathea generated correlated 3D Game engine terrain