Book of the Week - Google Sketchup for Dummies
As readers may know we are big fans of SketchUp , firstly for being available in a largely fully functional free version and secondly for being so refreshingly easy to use. Despite SketchUp's ease of…
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Global and Local Data - Representing Geography in Second Life
The end of our third day colonising the skies above Second Nature Island in Second Life and we now have a number ways…
Geodemographic Data in Second Life
Day 2 on Second Nature Island in Second Life and looking into ways to import map data into the virtual environment.…
Second Life - Video of the Build So Far: Urban Bubbles
After the first day of building on our new plot of land, kindly donated by Nature , we have a couple of 'Step Inside…
Second Life - Second Nature Cities: First Build
As an update to our earlier post on Second Nature - Digital Urban, CASA and UCL in Second Life we have our first sample…
Second Nature - Digital Urban, UCL and CASA in Second Life
Nature have kindly donated some land in Second Life for our research, we are now part of the Second Nature Island in…
Designing Buildings using a Multi-Touch Display
Devices based on touch are becoming increasingly common and are currently deemed to usher in a new type of interface.…
Iconic London - 3D Tube Map Update
A quick update on our Iconic London 3D Tube Map - we are going through the process of vectorising the base data which…
Data as Architecture - SketchUp Bar Charts
Taking a break from the photorealism we usually feature in our 3D models we have been looking at quick and easy ways to…
Data Visualisation - SketchUp to 3DMax
While thumbing through various reports we were struck at how unimaginative a lot of geographic data visualisation is.…
Post Updates
All is quiet at the moment on the blog front - at least for the next few hours in case you were waiting for our regular…
University College London Quad Panorama - Lumix FX50 High Dynamic Range
With a couple of adjustments, compared to our first test images and post on capturing high dynamic range panoramas with…
HDR Panorama with the Lumix FX-50
Creating a High Dynamic Range panorama is often deemed to require high end hardware such a digital SLR. While for high…