Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
Earlier this year CASA was invited to create a virtual reality exhibit for the Walking on Water exhibition, partnered with Grand Designs Live at London’s ExCeL. While CASA has a tendency to spend a lot of time thinking seriously about cities and data it was quickly decided that a fun…
The Vuforia AR Extension for Unity allows developers to build AR apps using the cross-platform game engine – Unity. Working with both the free and pro versions of Unity, Vuforia is not only free it is also one of the best out there in terms of tracking and image based tagging. Running…
Lumion is one of the best rapid visualisation systems out there for architectural style rendering. Its ease of use and ability to create scenes complete with advanced sky and lighting effects make it perfect for urban visualisation. With the release of version 3 we thought we would take the free version for…
Regular readers will know that we are big fans of 3D Max here at digital urban. The up and coming 2014 version has a notable feature for anyone interested in urban visualisation – the ability to add crowds to scenes. One of our uses of 3D Max is for agent based…
The 404 Festival Taiwan 2010 / Official Spot film investigates the genesis of a world created from information where success and failure becomes layered into an evolving urban landscape: 404 Festival Taiwan 2010 / Official Spot from 404 Festival on Vimeo. Created by Nice Shoes, and in their own words…
Produced by Telegram71 and commisioned by Atp Architekten Ingenieure, the video below shows a possible future renovation of the Shopping City Sued, a shopping mall extending for nearly 2 km in the periphery of Vienna. The insertion of 3d modeled and rendered sequences into on site shootings gives a clear…
Viralata produced the movie below as a test working on 3D architectural design with Blender.He started to study how to use modifiers to get a shape that adapts automatically to the floors, adding the ability to “sculpt” the building easily and see the result. déformations from Viralata on Vimeo.The music…
The video below was produced for an exhibition featuring the proposed Museum Plaza building for Louisville, Kentucky. Museum Plaza from Brooklyn Digital Foundry on Vimeo. We like the integration of the digital into the model footage, especially with the traffic. That said, the pixelated faces of the workers in the…
The movie below is featured in a forthcoming exhibition about urban visions in Stuttgart at the Kunstbezirk: Bonsai City / Typology A,B,C from Michael Fragstein on Vimeo.The ideology and animation was carried out by Michael Fragstein, produced by Büro Achter April, music and sound by Marc Fragstein. The exhibition runs…
Lumitectura is a music video by barno about the relation of light, music and architecture. The clip is defined by 3 elements. -One videofile, shot between 2 and 6 pm.-The speed of playback of this file, which is synchronised manually to the music.-Approximately 50 different masks, which define where the…
Streaming Urban Data – YouTube Live
Particles – 3dsMax and Lumion/Unity
The Making of the CASA Oculus Rift Urban Roller Coaster
Linking a 1940’s Radio to the Internet of Things
Introducing the MSc and MRes Smart Cities at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
IFTTT, Netatmo & Philips Hue: Linking Data to Lighting
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