Biosphere3D is an open-source project that targets interactive landscape scenery rendering based on a virtual globe.
The software is released under the MPL license and developed by Zuse Institute Berlin, Lenné3D and the open-source community for use on personal computers.
Biosphere3D was initially developed in the Visualization and Data Analysis department at the Zuse Institute Berlin as part of a research project and it was first released in 2007.
Biosphere3D, initially funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) within the R&D project ‘SILVISIO’, has been designed as a pure landscape visualization system.
For the released beta on SourceForge, a x64 bit Windows with up-to-date drivers is needed.