UCL Quad - Procedural City and Lumion
The Quadrangle at University College London was designed by William Wilkins and constructed between 1827 and 1828. It is a natural building of urban research as its surroundings provide a mix of…
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AR Navigation System for Pedestrians - Android App
Sung-Hyun Jang, one of my Ph.D. students here at CASA , has launched an Android app called AR Navigation System for…
Developing Classical and Contemporary Models in ESRI's City Engine - CASA Working Paper 191
CASA Working Paper 191 - Developing classical and contemporary models in ESRI's City Engine - is now available to…
Colours: A Live London Weather Dashboard
Here at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis we run a Davis Vantage Pro 2 unit with Solar and UV sensors…
500 Words a Day: Academic Writing
Its not something many academics admit - but writing is hard, not for all, there are some academics who simply flow…
Working Paper - Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World
We present our working paper entitled ‘Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World‘. The paper comes in at…
15,000 Agents: A* Pathfinding
Games engines such as Unity are the perfect platform for agent based modelling, they allow a combination of 3D urban…
Unity Traffic System - City Traffic
Creating a sandbox style traffic system in Unity is a challenge. As our previous posts have shown agents can use…
Police Agent City Ball - Unity/NavMesh and CityEngine
The natural conclusion of our recent posts on Unity and CityEngine is of course a physics/navmesh police chase with the…
Urban Ball - CityEngine, Unity and Agent Based Modelling on the iPad
CityEngine combined with Unity and a tablet - iOS requires a developers account, Android simple needs the 30 days Unity…
Augmented Reality City Table Top - Unity, CityEngine and Vufoira
The Vuforia AR Extension for Unity allows developers to build AR apps using the cross-platform game engine - Unity.…
Trail Rending of Agents with NavMesh, Physics, Unity and CityEngine
Combining simple agent based models with physics objects and rendering techniques in a game engine has potential for…
Shortest Path Modelling and NavMesh in Unity and CityEngine
Shortest path network analysis, pedestrian modelling and moving agents around complex city scenes has always been a…