Virtual nature

Combining ecological models with 3D computer graphics techniques to generate natural virtual worlds. This technique can be used to visualise the possible outcome of ecosystem management scenarios, which can be helpful for managers and the general public to choose the right management option.

BESE protecting the foreland

FEB 2020 | With BESE, a mussel bed is restored. The combination of mussel beds and seagrass beds, improve coastal safety by protecting dykes.

Visualising a small saltmarsh

FEB 2019 | Will the Hedwigepolder for decades remain a silt flat that is unsuitable for plant life, or will the area soon be suitable for the first settlement of vegetation?

Future of the Hedwige-Prosper polder

DEC 2018 | A model that predicts what the new tidal nature will look like in the decades following the introduction of salt Scheldt water.

Pattern formation by mussels

AUG 2018 | Spatial self-organization is the main theoretical explanation for the global occurrence of regular coherent spatial patterns in ecosystems.

Visualizing scientific models

AUG 2012 | This video shows how NIOZ combines ecological models with 3D computer graphics techniques to generate natural virtual worlds.

Engineering a biodiversity hotspot

APR 2012 | This video builds on spatial self-organisation models to provide a detailed 3D computer graphics visualisation of the development of a mussel bed.

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