Patent ID: 8212839

Claim:
An image creating device comprising: a parameter acquiring unit that acquires environment parameters at a predetermined plurality of places in a virtual space; and an image creating unit that creates an image based on the acquired environment parameters, wherein the image creating unit creates, for each of the predetermined plurality of places in the virtual space, an image showing a graphic associated with an environment parameter at the place and drawn at a position within the image, the position being associated with the place, each of the predetermined plurality of places in the virtual space is exclusively associated with one of a plurality of sections that divide the virtual space, the parameter acquiring unit, for each of the predetermined plurality of places in the virtual space, acquires a direction of inflow and outflow of an environment parameter that flows in and out between neighboring sections for the sections associated with the place, and the image creating unit creates as the image a dynamic image in which, for each of the predetermined plurality of places in the virtual space, the graphic vibrates in the direction of inflow and outflow of the environment parameter at the place based on the position within the image, the position being associated with the place.