RealModel: A system for modeling and visualizing sedimentary rocks

Abstract

In sedimentary environments, those geologically reasonable models can be built according to the characterizations and mechanisms of various sedimentary processes such as sediment transport, erosion, and deposition. In this work, a 3D modeling system, RealModel, is designed and developed to construct and predicate geologically reasonable objects (sedimentary rocks) according to the geological and geometrical information acquired from the outcrops while considering only two basic sedimentary processes (deposition and erosion). The RealModel is efficient, robust, and easy-to-use. We described RealModel regarding the software architecture, and software functionalities, and verified the accuracy by modeling an application example.

Keywords

• 3D geological modeling
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Visualization