Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
Aidan Slingsby is the Willis Research Fellow over at the excellent giCentre from City University. He was part of a team who entered the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (research.nokia.com/mdc). The challenge centered around analysing aspects of smartphone logs for participants, over the course of a year. They derived social network information from these and wanted…
As part of the MRes of Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation in CASA, the course has been exploring various techniques relevant to urban modelling and visualisations, such as Cellular Automata and (CA), Agents Based Modelling. These approaches can be abstract visualizations and in these terms, Flora from http://en-topia.blogspot.co.uk/ has been…
Finding Portland was produced, shot, and edited in 51 days during March and April at the invitation of TEDx Portland, where the video was unveiled to a sell out crowd of 650 and met with a standing ovation. Filmed in Portland and the Columbia Gorge, the time-lapse piece offers a new…
Robin of geotheory.org and a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course here at CASA, University College London has created an interesting movie looking at data from openflights.org.Created in Processing the clip visualises 50,000 active flight-paths: Take a look at http://geotheory.org/ for more examples…
This year, and for the first time, the SLACTIONS Steering Committee has included a day devoted to Machinima in the conference program. The SLACTIONS 2012 Machinima Festival is a Machinima competition included on the SLACTIONS 2012 Research conference on virtual worlds. Conference calls are to be honest normally slightly dull, this…
Electronic Arts has released 4 short clips examining the simulation capability of the GlassBox Game Engine behind the forthcoming SimCity update. Image: Traffic Density in the original SimCity release. The mix of agent based modelling, economic fire, water etc make for a complex system running within the game engine. As ever with…
At night or in bad weather, elite military and security professionals are reliant on technology to find potential threats. Infrared and video cameras can not get enough pixels on target to cover wide areas. But radar coupled with a PTZ camera and you have a winning solution that covers a…
Minecraft is a sandbox construction game involving players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three dimensional environment. The player takes an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations and artwork across the various multiplayer servers in multiple game modes. As such it is…
We like GIS here at digitalurban but obviously not as much as @josephkerski who has written a song all about his love for all things GIS: Slightly (actually more than slightly) lost for words, but we applaud the enthusiasm….
The 3D-GIS in the Cloud App for iPad and Smartphones allows city data to be navigated in 3D. Mixing augmented reality and 3D visualisations the App extends the reach of GIS beyond the office and allows organisations to make collaborative and accurate business decisions in both field and office environments. The system supports existing GIS spatial…
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