A new web application that makes it quick and easy for people to use 3-D printers to make terrain models of any place on Earth has now been developed by researchers. Their idea -- they call it ...

The highest rock wall in the Alps—the Monte Rosa East Face on the border between Italy and Switzerland—has for the first time been surveyed three-dimensionally with high precision. An international ...

Littleton, Colorado-based TerraMetrics, Inc., a leading developer of high-precision terrain-rendering technologies and global satellite imagery for aviation, simulation and geospatial markets, ...

Howe Sound in miniature belongs to someone in Lions Bay. Jody Mitchell, the founder of B.C. company Filaprint, made the two-by-three-foot 3D terrain model. She told The Chief that she was originally ...

AMES, Iowa – Today’s geology lesson is all about anticlines. Students can read all they want about geological folds, axial planes, hinge lines, antiformal synclines and synformal anticlines. But it ...