Extracting a 3D Model From Drawings - SketchUp
Constructing 3D models of buildings is all about extracting the geometry from images using photogrammetric techniques. As such, although it goes against basic geometric principles it also lends…
Read →Line Rider - City Track (Castle in the Sky)
As is traditional another Line Rider Friday post - these are becoming increasingly difficult to find to be honest. This…
Flickr Update
For those interested in 360x180 panoramic images - such as the image of Westminster Abbey to the right - we have…
SketchUp Cities
The second in a series of posts looking at user created cities in the freely available Google SketchUp software.…
Church of Christ the King - 6 Metres Above the Ground Panorama
Taking images from above the ground adds a slightly different perspective to panoramas. Using a D80 with a 10.5mm lens…
EveryScape - Better than Google Street View (?)
Google Street View launched only a few weeks ago and now there is a new contender on the block in the shape of…
Forthcoming Posts
I am off to give a talk at the Oxford Institute for Technology today so posts will resume as normal tomorrow. Of…
Architectural Visualisation - Dubai Waterfront
According to the Wiki the Dubai Waterfront is proposed to become the largest waterfront and largest man-made…
Line Rider - City Escape
Another week and its been a busy one with insights into Architecture in Virtual Worlds , Microsoft's Surface Computer ,…
Photosynth - London Trafalgar Square
Photosynth is one of those applications that has the potential to change the way we view images and 3d models of our…
Gapminder - Global Data Visualisation via Google Tools
Visualising global data via a single chart is always problematic unless you want to illustrate a single moment in time…
SketchUp Futuristic/Fantasy/Modern Cities
SketchUp allows users from all walks of life the ability to build whatever they may wish and subsequently share the…
Google SketchUp
SketchUp is without question our favorite piece of software here at Digital Urban. Its shear ease of use, combined with…