Where Klorad began.
Klorad did not start as a product. It started as a question in a doctoral thesis, and an architecture built to answer it.
Every 3D, geospatial project rebuilds the same foundation.
Across years of research, one pattern kept repeating. Each new study, each new demonstrator, began the same way: rebuilding 3D scenes, geospatial plumbing, and software architecture from scratch before the real question could be asked. The foundation was reinvented every time.
A formal model for 3D worlds.
The doctoral work produced a class diagram: a single, formal way to describe 3D, geospatial worlds and the architecture that renders them. Define the model once, and any number of worlds can share it. The thesis argued that the foundation should be designed, not reinvented.
Define once
A world is described independently of how it is drawn: geometry, data, and meaning, not rendering quirks.
Render anywhere
The same model targets any engine. The choice of renderer is a detail, not a rewrite.
Build on shared ground
Every project inherits the same foundation, so effort goes to the new problem, not the plumbing.
The architecture, published.
The model beneath Klorad is not internal lore — it is peer-reviewed and public. In ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, the team set out a system model that puts geospatial data at the core of virtual worlds, organised into three layers — access, world, and integration — that bring together digital twins, real-time sensor data, and multi-user interaction in one architecture. It is the formal foundation every Klorad world is built on.
Papadopoulos, T., Evangelidis, K., Kaskalis, T. H., & Evangelidis, G. (2025). The Metaverse Is Geospatial: A System Model Architecture Integrating Spatial Computing, Digital Twins, and Virtual Worlds. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 14(3), 126.
Read the paper
Klorad is that model, in production. The class diagram became the World type at the core of the platform, and the foundation beneath Campus, Mobility, Virtual Heritage, and Urban.
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