City of Light: Tokyo Timelapse

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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office offers perhaps one of the best city views in the world - and best of all it is free. Sof of sof-design.jp/blog captured the timelapse below from the top of the observatory using a Pentax K20D + DA18-55mmII setup.


The City of Light from sof on Vimeo.

Produced for the HASYMO Music Video Contest, its a nice tie in with the cityscape and the movement of people.

Procedual City Generator

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procedural city from javisantana on Vimeo.

We tip that a number of new players to come into the procedural city market this year after the success of the City Engine. The movie above comes from Javier Santana - note the pedestrians within the scene. Crowd Dynamic is another up and coming field, soon the production of cities, complete with traffic and crowd simulations, will be as simple as a click of a mouse...

Live Weather in Blogger using Ajax: Central London

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Below is a test to see if we can embed a live weather feed from our roof here in Central London into the blog:



If its working you should see the data update every 2 seconds. Its a quick and easy way to get live data into a page using Ajax. The layout is an updated version of the excellent original template found at http://www.carterlake.org/webtemplates.php

You can also view the full 'Flash' enabled version of our weather feed here.

How Big Can Cities Grow? Guest Article by Mike Batty

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Professor Mike Batty, Director of CASA (home of digital urban) knows a thing or two about cities, and he has kindly agreed to publish his views on how large cities can grow via the blog...

How Big Can Cities Grow?

Cities usually begin to grow around some central point which acts as a market for the exchange of goods. The Roman agora is the classic example and most cities still show a residual structure which mirrors this historical pattern. Even the car-based cities of the American South West such as Phoenix have a core or city centre that reflects the original source of settlement. When cities expand through population growth, individuals attempt to get as much space as possible around themselves while remaining as close as possible to other people in the city.

This tension between the demand for space which makes itself felt in lower densities and the need for proximity to others which is both a social and economic need, depends intrinsically on the wealth of the population and the level of available technology. The contemporary city of course is limited by how far one can travel by car. Cities become bigger as people trade-off space for time and diversify their work patterns through the working day and week, while new technologies which enable high buildings to be constructed, expand city size in the vertical dimension.

The skyscraper only became possible after elevator technologies were invented and with new construction technologies and materials, the maximum height of a building has grown ever higher. Somewhat serendipitously the architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a scheme for a mile-high building, the Illinois Sky-City, in the 1950s, but only now have technologies reached the point where anything approaching this is possible. The Burj Tower which is under construction in Dubai will be half a mile high when it is finished next year.

The debate about sustainability of cities is critically woven into this question of size. Urban sprawl, the term now used for cities that grow due to dependence on the car, allow populations to purchase land for living at very low densities far away from city cores while still remaining ‘connected’. Such suburbs are often assumed to be unsustainable due to much higher energy use for transport and for heating and cooling such low density structures. If people travel less using less energy and live at higher densities, then it is argued, by some, that cities will be more compact, hence more sustainable in that their carbon footprints will be lower.

In a world of rising temperatures and sea levels, and of rapidly diminishing non-renewable fuel sources, the idea of such compact cities appears attractive. However this argument is never straightforward and might even be flawed. Notwithstanding the fact that individuals want to maximise their use of space – lower densities – while remaining attached to the city which is only possible through sprawl, then the amount of energy saved by moving to a more compact form is rather uncertain. It might appear that using less fuel through travel would reduce energy use, but the added congestion and heat posed by crowding could well offset this gain. Moreover, high densities are not necessarily compatible with ecological stability in cities and it is not clear that high buildings which are part of the drive for compactness are more energy efficient than lower rise structures. In fact as a building gets larger, it is more difficult to resource through natural lighting and direct energy.

The problem is that our measurement of relevant energy use is extremely crude while the multiplier effects of energy flow through the urban economy and population are almost impossible to gauge. In short, our understanding of the way we use energy in cities is so rudimentary that most of the potential solutions to building more sustainable cities remain at the level of speculation.

There is little doubt that if we were to reduce travel and house people in residential areas of higher density constructed of materials that were more energy efficient and if people could be convinced to use less energy, then cities would become more sustainable. We would simply use less energy. But the possibilities of doing this are difficult. Purchasing and using more space which means living at lower densities is largely a function of income in that the greater disposable wealth, the more likely that individual is would live at lower densities.

This is compounded by the fact that lower densities can only be sustained by greater expenditures on travel which means more fuel use and this too depends on higher incomes. The much greater carbon footprint of the USA in per capita terms is largely due to two things – greater real incomes and much more available space for living than in Western Europe and other parts of the world. In fact, the rate of change in per capita energy use in the USA is less than in other parts of the world which is reflected in more stringent emissions standards on car pollution and a greater tendency to domestic recycling and related measures.

Moreover technological change could well lead to solutions to the problem of movement in cities which could overturn arguments to reduce conventional energy use by raising densities and pricing out the car. The argument that resource conservation and use might be affected by the invention of cleaner and more efficient technologies that process energy more efficiently is an equally difficult one to think through. Already there are quite dramatic increases in efficiency which show every sign of outpacing price rises in non-renewable fuels.

The prospect too of substituting information for energy in terms of patterns of travel and other forms of communication is also changing the way people are interacting in cities with much clearer divisions and specialisation of transactions that require face to face versus more remote forms of contact. The prospect of very large cities where physical movement is not the predominant form of interaction, still appears something of a semi-fiction and ideas about the electronic cottage and the paper-less office have not come to pass, at least not yet.

The question of course remains: how big a city can get? It appears that as we get richer and as our technologies relating to movement get more efficient and we are able to travel longer distances, cities can get bigger but they are still limited by the capacity to travel during the working day. However if the working day is thrown into question and we begin to organise ourselves more flexibly in terms of the use of our time, then this will force up the limits on city size. It is well known that by the end of this century that the proportion of the world’s population living in cities will have increased from 45% now to some 80%.

The world’s biggest city at any point in the last 100 years has grown inexorably: in 1900 it was London with 6.4 million; in 1950 it was New York with 12.4 million; in 2000 it was Tokyo with 34.1 million and the forecasts for the next 100 years show that the cities of the developing world will overtake those of the developed. New technologies will determine how big cities can grow as well as how high they will grow in terms of skyscrapers. In 1900, the highest building in the world was in Philadelphia some 167 metres in height; in 1950, it was 381 metres in New York City; and in 2000, it was 452 metres in Kuala Lumpur. The trade-off between space developed, energy used, and the amount of travel required to enable effective and workable communications will determine both the desirability and sustainability of cities. These questions of course are changing as we get better methods of measurement and as we understand the ways in which energy and information underpin the functioning of the modern city.

In tackling the problem of the sustainable city, it is essential to measure the size of cities much more effectively and to trace the pathways of energy demand and supply in ways that enable us to get a much clearer view of how we can trade-off space/density for communications. This is the challenge that we urgently need to address for only then we will get some sense of how big our cities are, how big they can get, and more importantly how big they should be.

by Mike Batty, Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis.

Greetings from Seattle: Visualising the City

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Greetings From Seattle from Ian Cox on Vimeo.

'Greetings From Seattle', is a film not surprisingly about Seattle. Created by Ian Cox it was made with a combination of Photoshop and After Effects.

Its really nicely done, take a look at our ever growing thread of City and Architectural Animations for more examples.

City Architecture Visualisation: Manama, Bahrain

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City Complex from Rabih Haddad on Vimeo.

The architectural visualisation above was produced by BlackSmith Studios. The project is based in Manama, Bahrain, aimed to be one of the largest redevelopment projects in the region.

The language of the voice over is Arabic for the regional audience, if you don't understand Arabic no worries as its all about the visuals.

In these current times it will be interesting to see how many more such visualisations of new cities are produced. The BBC has an interesting article on how new construction in Dubai has been largely put on hold.

City in Games: Fastlane Street Racing on the iPhone

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With 8 city routes to race Fastlane Street Racing is the first 3D city based game we have seen on the iPhone.

Its an impressive rendition of a city and while its no Burnout on the PSP the iPhone is quick becoming a jack of all trades. From Timelapse photography to GeoCaching, Google Earth to Instamapper it is almost an urban geographers version of a swiss army knife. That aside, take a look at the movie below detailing Fastlane Street Racing, especially the rendering of the cityscape:



See http://www.fastlanestreetracing.com for more info and a link to the iTunes store.

Thanks go to Andreas of http://bovens.net/ for sending us the link.

Punch Card GIS: The Canada Geographic Information System

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The Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) was developed in the 1950s and 1960s to assist in regulatory procedures of land-use management and resource monitoring. At that time, Canada was beginning to realize problems associated with its seemingly endless boundaries, in combination with natural resource availability.

The government therefore decided to launch a national program to assist in management and inventory of its resources. The simple automated computer processes designed to store and process large amounts of data enabled Canada to begin a national land-use management program and become a foremost promoter of geographic information systems (GIS) (ref wikipedia).

The movie below is the second of a three part documentary on the system, it details the digitising process beghind the CGIS and provides an insight into how anywhere in the world can be located using 'numbers':



You can recreate the 1960's experience by loading up ArcMap and making 'beeping' noises while punching small holes in a business card.

Take a look at the other parts via YouTube.

Thanks go to Patrick Weber for sending round the link.

Augmented Reality in (outside) of Second Life

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As we have pondered in various posts Augmented Reality is a quick win in terms of visualisation, it is realtivly easy to implement and has a high 'wow' factor. The concept is simple, a webcam is linked up via a toolkit that is able to identify printed tags, the system then superimposes and 3D model over the scene - thus augmenting reality.

Of course the printed tags dont have to be 'physical' they can be embedded into Virtual Worlds such as Second Life, creating a really unqiue concept of importing/moving and visualisation objects in a virtual environment.

Take a look at the video below from cristiancontini for a really interesting proof of concept:


Augmented Mixed Reality: Second Life pops out from the Screen from cristiancontini on Vimeo.

See http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/ for download and working examples.

See also our recent posts on Papervision Augmented Reality and Augmented Reality for Architecture using SketchUp.

OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits Video

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OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

The movie above detailing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008 was produced using a custom written Open GL package running on a Linux workstation. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official data.

OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007. During the year, edits were made by some 20,000 individuals and there were bulk imports of data for many places, including the USA, India, Italy and Belarus which are clearly visible in the animation. (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources)

This animation was produced by itoworld.com with financial support from ideasintransit.org;Various stills are available from flickr.com/groups/itomedia/pool/. The music is 'Open Electro' by Vincent Girès' jamendo.com/en/artist/silence and can be downloaded from archive.org/details/silence-silence.

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The Battle to Rebuild London has Begun: The Guardian

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Victor Keegan, writing in The Guardian, takes a look at the number of companies working on building London as a 3D model. From high end architectual represenations to Second Life the article takes a look at the history and the gold rush to build a three-dimensional replica of London, complete with streets, shops, parks, even the underground system.

Our work is covered, although its almost six years of work we would like to forget, being ahead of the field, new planning laws about to go through and a real chance of changing how Londoners view and have a say about their city - still c est la vie, as Victor states:

The biggest - covering not just central London but an area stretching out to the M25 - is also the most bizarre: a publicly funded project that the public can't see. Built by University College in association with Connect London, it boasts 3.2m building blocks and could have gone live two years ago, well ahead of the competition, as part of Google Earth, but for our friends at Ordnance Survey, which controls the vital database refused permission. Cue the Free Our Data campaign.

Take a look at the full article via The Guardian Online.

See also:

The Guardian - Virtual London and the Ordnance Survey

Londonist's View

The Full Statements from Ordnance Survey and Google

Ed Parsons (Geospatial Technologist of Google) No Comment, Just Grab a Pint

TimeLapse for the iPhone - A First Look

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TimeLapse is an iPhone app that automates the operation of the iPhone's camera to help create time lapse photo sequences. TimeLapse stores the photos in the iPhone photo library so you can easily download them to your computer and create a movie using applications such as Apple QuickTime Pro, Windows Movie Maker or ffmpeg.

We downloaded it last week and have put it through a few first tests. If it wasn't for a fundamental flaw in the way the iPhone names images it would be almost the perfect pick up and go TimeLapse tool. Annoyingly at the moment the iPhone names images in sequence up to 1000 and the goes back to the start, so with a timelapse of over 1000 images you end up with a file sequence of 1000_1 1000_2 etc which means that the files need to be renamed before imported into any of the programs above.

That said, we think have found a way round it using some Windows freeware, more on that later next week. Our first example is embeded below - it was a horrible day with fast moving clouds but you should get the idea:


iPhone TimeLapse Test from digitalurban on Vimeo.

By simply turning your phone on and running the software you can get some interesting sequences - its the easiest way we have found so far for creating timelapses. Hopefully the image naming issue can be ironed out, until then its not too much a hurdle and for £1.79 it makes TimeLapse a must buy for any iPhone owning image sequence fan.

You can buy TimeLapse directly from the Apple App Store.

If it was a Google Universe: Particles to Google Earth

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No particular :) point to this post, just spent a few minutes in After Effects and its amazing what you can do in very little time. The movie below is a quick visualisation of how the earth may of formed if it was a Google Universe:


Particles to Google Earth from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Perhaps when you zoom out far enough there really is a little 'Google' logo in the stars?

Anyhow, back to work...

Stop Motion City

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Marcul City from Abram Pineda-Fischer on Vimeo.
As with our post last week on the City of Books sometimes its good to be non-digital. The movie above is by Abram Pineda-Fischer and Lucas Scott with music by Matt Nimmo and we really like it...

Google Earth Milk Truck: Drive the City

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We are slightly late to the table with this one - it was released last year but now with the Mac compatible Google Earth plugin its finally come to our attention, and its great.

Our video below shows the Monster Milk Truck app, built with the Google Earth API driving around various locations around the world:


Google Earth Monster Milk Truck from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Following on from the above movie is the soon to be released version compatible with the Wii balance board known as Earth Surfer, take a look at the movie below for full details:



Click here to take the milk truck for a ride..

Thanks to Fabian of UrbanTick for the link.

Space/Time City Timelapse: Colapse Times

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colapse times from demari.tv on Vimeo.
The movie above entitled 'Colapse Times' features night light timelapse sessions by luis.simione@terra.com.br (Photographer) combined with diting & morph effect by demari.tv motion. The movie is mixed with track ''Third Knife' from The Youngsters - Ministry of Sound record: "The Underground 2008".

We like the way time and space are morphed throughout this clip using After Effects, clever stuff...

Obama Photosynth Video: The Moment CNN

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Microsofts Photosynth is without question a technology to watch and CNN have pushed it to a new level with their capture of the moment Barack Obama placed his hand on the bible and took the presidential oath of office.

Our movie below takes a quick tour around the resulting Photosynth:


Obama CNN The Moment Photosynth: The Inauguration from digitalurban on Vimeo.

You can view the Photosynth direct - Windows and Mac compatible - via the CNN page.

Its a really interesting visual capture of a moment in time using the crowd as a source of data.

Data Visualisation the Easy Way: UUorld

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UUorld (pronounced "world") is a company with mission to transform information into knowledge by providing a map-making and data-visualization tool. And despite our naturally wary view of such claims they are doing a fantastic job so far. UUorld is one of the easiest and most informative data visualisation tools we have used for a long while. It allows access to a vast online database as well as direct import of data via .CSV files, for the purpose of communication, outrearch or data displays within companies or local authorities this is well worth a look. Non commercial usage is free with commercial use at a economic model changing $49.

In short we are impressed, the big players should take note - in the video below we take UUorld for a spin:


UUorld - Data Visualization Example from digitalurban on Vimeo.

The movie starts off with a look at Population Density in the US - note the peak of New York. The software allows scales and colour to be changed on the fly along with access to the raw data sets for some more detailed spatial analysis. Secondly we move onto number of airports on a global scale, again just to show use of the portal and visualisation before finally visualizing private employment data.

Data visualisation has perhaps never been so easy - take a look at http://uuorld.com/ for details and download, its quite a find.

London (harder, better, faster, stronger)

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David Hubert wanted to make a video of London but I didn't have a camcorder, so he took pictures instead. In fact he took more then 3000 pictures and put them all together into a video lasting less then 2 minutes with excellent results:


London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.

Video mixed with the track ''Harder, better, faster, stronger'' from Daft Punk live record ''Alive 2007''

On busy days, such as today, this how living in London feels... :)

100 Days in 100 Seconds: Life of an Apartment Building

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The movie below by Holgar Vaga details an apartment building over 100 days. The movie was created by taking a photograph at the same time everyday from the same position, lining the camera up using a known focus point. It creates a unqiue look at the architecture over time, in some ways the apartment building almost feels 'stuck' in the position as the seasons change and life goes on around it:


Changing Seasons timelapse HDR (frame fill) from Holger Vaga on Vimeo.

Take a look at Holgar's Flickr stream for more images - a really nice concept.

TiltShift, Timelapse and Motion Tracking: MapType

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We don't know who its by apart from the link to maptype.com which brings up the logo pictured above but the movie in this post ticks all the boxes - City (tick), Timelapse (tick), Tilt Shift (tick), Motion Tracking (tick) - perhaps we should get out more but its is simply fantastic:


MapType from MapType on Vimeo.
Keep an eye out on maptype.com... could be interesting.

Earth Mosaics: Google Earth and a 3D Video Earth

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A while ago we created the mosaic of Google Earth pictured above using images tagged with the words 'Maps, Space and Aerial'. The result was a photo mosaic of 5000 images which was aimed at getting across the point of 'mashups' for a forthcoming presentation. The full size image (10,000 x 6000 pixel) image is embedded below courtesy of our free Image Cutter software, simply click to zoom and drag to pan:



You can also view a larger version via Flickr.

However, the movie below details the Earth using videos to create the mosaic, taken from the project http://www.momentonearth.com/ it rather puts ours in the shade...


3D Earth Mosaic from Satellite Films on Vimeo.

You can see other movies from the project via Vimeo.

Cologne City Night Timelapse

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Cologne Night Timelapse from Daniel Saegebarth on Vimeo.
The movie above by Cedric May and Daniel Saegebarth of http://www.dsentertainment.de.ki/ details the city of Colgne, Germany at night. We have a bit of a 'thing' about timelapses and this is an excellent example, linked to the music is almost makes Cologne feel slightly eerie.

City of Lights

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City of Lights from Gijs Kusters on Vimeo.
The movie above entitled 'City of Lights' is by Teun van de Zalm and Daan Verbiest from the Utrecht School of the Arts Animation. The video was uploaded by Gijs Kusters, who also worked on the film with the music by Alexander Reumers.

In short we really like it...

CNN Plans Obama Inauguration 3D Capture: Photosynth and Crowd Sourcing

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Post update - video of the resulting Photosynth is now part of a new post here.

Microsofts Photosynth is without question a technology to watch and CNN are about to push it to a new level with their plans to capture a moment in time in 3D. The moment of capture is January 20th 12:00pm ET when Barack Obama places his hand on the bible and takes the presidential oath of office.

At that point if you are in the crowd CNN wants you to:

1. Take one photo of the moment when Obama takes the oath. If you have a digital camera with a zoom lens, take three photos (wide-angle, mid-zoom, full-zoom)

2. E-mail each photo as soon as possible to themoment@cnn.com (one photo per message, 10MB size limit). Don't forget to include your name in the message if you'd like to appear in the list of the contributors. Please only send in photos you took yourself.

3. Go to cnn.com/themoment to see all of the photos in our photosynth

Its an intriguing idea to capture a moment in time in 3D using essentially crowd sourced images, we cant wait to see how it turns out.

Take a look at CNNs 'The Moment' site for more information.

Mini Projectors in the City: Its Going to be Big...

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A couple of days ago we posted about the company easyweb using high end 'geoaware' projectors to beam images onto architecture in the city. While not on the same scale a new trend is emerging using mini projectors to display images while on the move around the urban scene - after all the city is a canvas there to be used.

The movie below was produced by a employee of Microvision who 'borrows' the companies up and coming pico projector to post on his excellent blog 'the pico underground'.



We like this a lot but if you have ever got annoyed with people playing their music on the bus via phones with built in speakers, within the next 18 months phones will have built in projectors and music on the bus will be upgraded to movies on the streets.

To be honest we are quite looking forward to it, it could certainly liven up the cityscape at night...

Mapping the Credit Crunch - MapTube on the BBC

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With a slightly different hat on from our normal urban visualisation work we also run our National Centre for e-Social Science grant here at CASA. One of the biggest successes of the grant has been MapTube which is based on our GMap Creater software developed by Richard Milton here in the lab.

An up and coming feature of MapTube is the ability to carry out near real-time geographic surveys, the latest of which is the new Credit Crunch Survey by the BBC Radio 4 PM show.

Key to public surveys and getting enough inputs to get a nationwide view is exposure, thankfully our latest survey is currently featured on the main BBC frontpage, significantly increasing traffic and thus survey results.

See the BBC iPM page for full details on the survey.


On a more regional level we are also running a survey to map peoples views on job security in association with BBC Look East. See the BBC Look East page for more details.

If you would like to know more take a look at our online publications page as we talk about MapTube in a number of the latest papers..

The City as a Canvas: Video Projection Showreel 2009

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We have posted quite a few times now about using projectors in the city to beam images onto Architecture and the screengrab above is one from one the best examples we have seen so far - the wireframe drape appeals to the 3D modeller deep inside us.

The 2009 showcase below by the 3D video projection mapping company EasyWeb is extremely impressive:



We will have more examples, this time with a more portable projector, in future posts..

Take a look at EasyWeb for more details and movies.

See also our post Mini Projectors in the City: Its Going to be Big...

Easily Embed Panoramas into a Blog: 360 Cities

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In the past we have always had a slightly 'unsure' view of companies offering to take panoramic imagery and use it themselves as part of a global database but 360Cities.net is really rather good. The company, registered in the Netherlands, is dedicated to promoting geo-mapped, VR panorama photography and VR photographers around the world.

Aimed at creating a unique global network of members who are specialists in VR photography their viewing platform is notably feature-rich. For example, it is easy to embed your panorama directly in a blog after uploading. The example of the London Eye below is by Tom Mills, an international panoramic photography award winner, Tom's work has been exhibited in England and France.



Of note is the ability to 'right click' in the above panorama and choose a range of projections - try out the 'little planet' option. Its the easiest way we have seen to both embed a panorama in a blog and provide the options for various views.

Upon uploading to 360cities.net the listing is by photographer on the front page, we quite like this as it keeps the focus on the artist rather than simply sucking images into a corporate database like other options.

One thing we would like to see is the option to 'Load' when embedding into a blog, just so the images don't automatically download but hopefully this feature will be forthcoming.

Take a look at 360Cities.net for more details and http://tommills.co.uk/ for more examples.

Soon as we get a chance we will be uploading some of our own panoramas onto the system...

City of Books - This is Where we Live

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The film below is simply stunning, it was produced for 4th Estate Publishers' 25th Anniversary by Apt Studio and Asylum Films. Entitled 'Welcome to our city - to our world - of books, this is where we live', the film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008:

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by a bunch of animators; you can see the time-lapse film below for the London sequence being prepared and shot:


London Shoot Timelapse from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Take a look at http://www.25thestate.com/ for more details, the movie is possibly one of the best stop motion animations we have featured so far on the blog....

Greeble City Movie

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Greeble City from Antonio Casado on Vimeo.

The movie above by Antonio Casado is an update to his previous Greeble City movie we featured here on digital urban. As regular readers will know we are big fans of 'Greeble' and the good news is that you can create a impressive cityscape using our Greeble a City tutorial in under 15 minutes.

Adding in the lighting, fans and smoke effects Antonio style takes a little more time....

If you do create a city using a tutorial we would love to know, so please do get in touch via our contacts link at the top and send us any renders or movies to feature here on the blog.

CASA Free Two Day Workshop: London 8/9 Jan 09

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For the next couple of days we are away from the blog at the CASA (home of digital urban) two day workshop. Running over the 8th and 9th January 2009 in London: the first day of the event is designed to showcase CASA's use of new technologies for mapping and visualizing information about cities. The second day entails technical workshops, designed primarily for members of the S4 European Spatial Analysis network, but all are welcome, the focus of the second day is agent based modelling. We will be talking through the latest 3D techniques as recently featured on the blog...

We have over 150 people attending but if you are in town then feel free to pop along and we'll try to fit you in..

Click here to see the full program and details about registration .

Tilt-Shift Barcelona

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Hope everyone had a good holiday and New Years break, we are just settling back in here at the lab so for a quick morning post take a look below at the tilt-shift movie of Barcelona by joja:


Tilt-Shift Barcelona from joja on Vimeo.

The clip covers 9 minutes consisting of 1884 photographs - that's 198 images a minute.

We do like these tilt-shift city images, soon as time allows we will feature some of London along with the obligatory 'How-To'.

Its good to be back....