Augmented Reality for Printed School Atlases

Interdisciplinary Project Work – HS2018 – ETH Zurich

Authors: Cédric Dind, Stefan Schalcher

Examiner: Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hurni Supervisors: Raimund Schnürer, Pascal Tschudi External Supervisor: Mattia Ryffel

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Workflow

▪ GeoJSON files

▪ Shapefiles

▪ Tables

▪ Pictures

▪ Unity + Vuforia

▪ QGIS + Blender

▪ C# scripts

▪ .NET framework

(JSON, GeoJSON)

▪ 2D/3D visualizations on

tablet with AR overlaying

the Swiss World Atlas

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▪ Visualization of glacier extents of different

years with:

▪ Surfaces

▪ Extruded polygons

▪ «Stacked cuboid» diagrams of the volumes of

the glaciers in different years

▪ Data query on click

▪ Legend

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Glacier Map

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▪ Point cloud visualization of the population

density in Europe

▪ «Pie chart» billboards of the energy consumer

groups per country

▪ Legend

▪ Data query on click

▪ Difficulty: Map extends over two pages

Curved map in the middle

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Population Density Map

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▪ 3D bar charts to display the most popular destinations for Swiss citizens

▪ Data query on click

▪ Countries & continents visualized

▪ Charter flights from different Swiss airports visualized with 3D trajectories

▪ Time slider to display different years

▪ Dropdown to select airport

▪ Outlook: Animation and data query for charter flights

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Tourism Map

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Graphical User Interface (GUI)

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Introductory page Search mode

SEARCHING FOR MAP…

▪ Simple

▪ Clear

▪ GUI elements:

▪ Buttons

▪ Share button

▪ Link to«Schweizer Weltatlas»

▪ Inputs according to map:

▪ Dropdown Menu

▪ Slider

▪ Feature queryMap mode

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