From the Computable City to the City in the Computer

In 1995 Professor Mike Batty wrote a paper entitled ‘The Computable City’, the history of Digital Urban can be traced…

Where Are The Posts?

For the next 10 days i am on Jury Service, which is making it kind of tricky to post on the blog. However as laptops…

Second Life - Global Weather Updates

Our experiments with weather data in Second Life continue, this time we have a couple of global maps in our space on…

Tutorial - How to Capture Google Maps for Printing and Poster Design

Using either our GMapCreator or any other Google Mapping application it is possible to create some stunning maps that…

Virtual Worlds Warning - Viewed Live in Second Life (Ironic?)

Google Earth PhotoOverlay - Download and Tutorial

As part of CASA's work on the GeoVue project funded by the National Centre for E-Social Science we are proud to…

Realtime RSS in Second Life

As part of our continuing work to investigate real time or near real time feeds into Second Life we now have a RSS feed…

Posts - Photo Overlay Creator

A quick update on posts - we are just completing the tutorial for the forthcoming Google Earth PhotoOverlay Tool. Once…

Digital Urban - The Merchandise

Are you a fan of Digital Urban? Do you wish you had a unique urban logo on your messenger bag or on your hoodie ? Well…

Origami Animation - Blue Screen Visualisation

Ok so its not urban but it is sort of digital and a fascinating movie displaying the techniques of stop frame animation…

Modding the Game for City Architectural and Scientific Visualisation - Vice City Back to the Future

Modifying games for visualisation is intriguing, it opens up the game engine for real time data manipulation and with…

Crysis Demo - Due October 26th

Over the last few months we have taken a couple of looks at the forthcoming game Crysis using the CryEngine 2 for…