Free-Form Deformation (FFD) is an efficient technique for editing the shapes of 3D models, and widely used in the Battlefield Environment Visualization (BEV) ,computer animation, computer graphics entertainment etc. The basic idea of some famous previous FFD approaches deforms a target 3D model by adjusting some control points of a 3D lattice surrounding the model. It is a tedious work, especially when the lattice contains too many control points. Moreover, how to place the control points of

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... lattice to make them cover the region of the target model is also a problem, and it is also difficult to keep the geometric measurement for the deformed model. Therefore, in this paper, a novel FFD method without any lattice like structure is proposed by borrowing the idea of non-distortion texture-mapping for freeform surfaces. By using this method, the 3D non-regular military symbol of the deformed model due to a given parametric terrain surface can be predicted easily, so that the user can get his or her desirable results more intuitively and has no necessary to place the control points of a proper lattice. Moreover, since this method is simple, efficient, and has a real-time response, it is more suitable for doing the animation with 3D non-regular military symbol models in the battlefield terrain surface.