3D Maps of The Laichinger Tiefenhöhle

The Laichinger Tiefenhöhle is a cave system with a rathe complicated structure, at least for a German cave. 13 shafts contected by small horizontal passages in at last three level. The two biggest chambers are among the biggest chambers in the whole area.

It is very difficult to show this complex structure in a horizontal or vertical projection. In any case parts of the cave are hidden by other passages. So especially the older maps of the cave were not really projections in the mathematic meaning, but approaches to explain the structure using some optical tricks.

The solution to this problem is a three dimensional map. H. Wittram the TU Braunschweig started many years ago to digitize the survey data of the Tiefenhöhle to make a computer model of the cave. This is rather difficult, because the survey is rather old (from 1972) and so the data is not sufficient for a volume model. The size of the passages is just an estimate, but the result is still very impressive:

• Mpeg-movie (368 kByte)
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• Another mpeg-movie (698 kByte), using a different mathematical model.
• Animated gif image (753 kByte), works with every browser, just more data to download.
• VRML Darstellung (57 kByte), very little data and still the best you can get. You need a VRML plugin!

This 3D-map was produced using the 3D-Graphic System VISIPLOT. See Animation for additional informations.

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