The CEV develops its own graphics engine that specializes in the attractive and functional presentation of earth science data within 3-D and 4-D applications. Built with open products that allow for delivery to Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX based machines, the blue engine focuses on easy incorporation of popular geographic data formats into the latest visual techniques the computer graphics community has to offer. GPU-based number crunching, shaders, and procedural-based visualizations are all explored within the engine.

The CEV blue engine is currently being used within the Marine Exploration Games project and the BlueSpace project where the Java 3D visualization engine had previously been used.

See CEV's Blue Engine Application Programming Interface.