ON POINT FEATURE AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION PLACEMENT IN 3D ENVIRONMENT

Based on the research of the automatic annotation placement in two-dimensional (2D) domain, automatic annotation rules of point feature in the three-dimensional (3D) field are proposed. In this paper, the quad-tree index is used to organize the 1:250 thousands vector map attributes data of China. Backing culling, view culling and overlap culling are introduced to decide whether the annotation is display or not. This method can reduce the displaying annotation in a great extent and improve the efficiency of this system. A 3D earth system is developed as a prototype. Annotation position is determined by the billboard technology which is widely used in 3D domain. Backtracking algorithm are employed to figure out the automatic annotation placement.