Embedding Panoramas into a Blog: Westminster Abbey
This is an experimental post to see if its possible to embed a 'click and drag' panorama into a blog post using a flash based viewer. Westminster Abbey is a work of outstanding architecture,…
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AAG Conference, Boston
We are heading off to the Association of American Geographers ( AAG ) Annual Conference in Boston on Wednesday. The AAG…
Agents in the City: Vision
Our last weeks series of posts on 3D Agent Based Models using 3D Max has been interesting (at least we have found it…
Simulating Traffic in 3D Cities: Agents, Shockwaves and Grids
Simulating traffic is a science in itself with each car acting as an agent that is aware of its surroundings. It is…
Towards Modelling Behaviour in 3D Cities: 3D Agents for Architecture
The second in what is looking like a series of posts on 3D Agent Based Modelling in cities - in short on placing crowd,…
Agents in the City: First Steps to Crowd Based Architectual Modelling
Yesterday we posted about roads in 3d models and how small details begin to bring the 3d city to life. The same goes…
LightUp: Realtime Lighting in SketchUp
LightUp is creating quite a stir in the SketchUp community and for good reason. The plugin allows realtime lighting…
Road Networks: Bringing 3D Greeble Cities to Life
Our Greeble City Tutorial provides a walk through on how to quickly and easily create a cityscape, complete with custom…
Maps and Stats: Visualisation with Google Docs
Google's Docs is something of a slow burner but it has notable potential for visualisation, especially for trends and…
Micro Origamic Architecture: 3x2 inch Buildings
This bought a smile to our faces here at digital urban - Micro Origamic Architecture - buildings created as pop up…
US Census Drop's PDA, Adopts Pencil and Paper
Sometimes it is easy to overlook how good 'old' style technologies are. For example, pencil and paper has automatic…
Live Geo-Located Video Feeds in Google Earth/Maps: Seero
The revolution in geo-location is continuing apace with video content combined with GPS location and live streaming…
iPhone in the City: Navizon - Location and Buddy Tracker
The iPhone's location finder is interesting, lacking the accuracy of the Nokia N95's dedicated GPS unit yet able to…