The clip below details a visualisation of municipality of Skopje (Macedonia) in 2014.
The St. Konstantin and Elena church and Alexa nder the Great monument are part of the Skopje 2014 project which envisages the transformation of the central district of the city:
The visualisation is in stark contrast to the most of the renders and animations we feature here on du and in many ways that is a good thing, indeed by the end of the clip with the rousing music we were quite getting into it. That said, we cant comment on the soundness of the plan – take a look at Macedonia: Online Rebellion Against “Skopje 2014″ Plan for full details on the reaction so far.
We have featured the students work as part of the The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich quite a lot recently and we are quite fastidious as to what goes on the blog. It goes to show the quality of the output.
The following example by Jakob Przybylo, Min-Chieh Chen and Michele Leidi is a typical – this time creating a city using processing:
Being able to create a city in one minute – using their processing application is impressive, it also allows output via .dxf, as such it can be imported into any number of rendering/modelling packages.
No word yet on a wider release, but it would be good to see if this could be made available….
“The authors describe how we are harnessing the power of web 2.0 technologies to create new approaches to collecting, mapping, and sharing geocoded data. The authors begin with GMapCreator that lets users fashion new maps using Google Maps as a base. Click the right arrow to turn the page:
The authors then describe MapTube that enables users to archive maps and demonstrate how it can be used in a variety of contexts to share map information, to put existing maps into a form that can be shared, and to create new maps from the bottom-up using a combination of crowdcasting, crowdsourcing, and traditional broadcasting. The authors conclude by arguing that such tools are helping to define a neogeography that is essentially ‘‘mapping for the masses,’’ while noting that there are many issues of quality, accuracy, copyright, and trust that will influence the impact of these tools on map-based communication.”
Old school readers will be familiar with the movie below, but with over 1400 posts some of our favourite movies have got lost and the following is one of them:
In short, embedding panoramas in a x/y/z space allows movies to be created where the camera automatically pans around a scene, it can be done in any 3D software.
