realXtend: SketchUp and Dynamic Shadows in a Virtual World
The image above by Visibuild , a host and solutions provider for the AEC industries, is running in realXtend , currently in early phase alpha, it is a platform to watch. The main attraction for us…
Read →Photosynth Now Integrated with Virtual Earth
We have been big fans of the Photosynth technology here at digital urban, it has huge potential for portraying the…
Life on the Bus: Timelapse by UrbanTick
Fabian over at UrbanTick notes that most of us travel to work daily and most likely we travel in a mass of fellow…
Textured LiDAR Scan of London: 1.5 Billion Points
The movie below provides a quick glimpse of our latest dataset in CASA - a LiDAR scan of London within the M25 ring…
Pixel City: Creating a Procedural Cityscape
Shamus Young of Twenty Sided has a fantastic walk through of creating a Procedural City, complete with source code.…
Mobile Blogging - BlogPress
We are currently on our way out of the city on the delayed 17.40 from Waterloo. As such we thought it was worth giving…
Portland 3D City Model
The movie above details a digital 3D model of Portland, Oregon created by NC3D using information gathered from Metro,…
London Timelapse: Fluffy Clouds and Full Moon
The timelapse above is the latest from the HD webcam housed on a roof in Camden Town - note the full moon rising above…
Profiles: B720 Architects
b720 architects – architectures in process from Francisco Dulanto on Vimeo . The movie above is a short documentary…
Digital Urban City Exhibition Space: Downloadable Preview
The following exhibition space is a proof of concept, looking at the ability to share and display city datasets and…
Unity: Creating a City Exhibition Space - Update 2
Regular readers will know that we have spent the last few days giving the game engine Unity a spin. The pro version has…
Google O3D: Web Based 3D
New out of Google Labs is O3D - an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser.…
LiDAR Scan of London in LandXplorer
The movie below details a 1 meter resolution scan of London using LiDAR (an optical remote sensing technology that…