The movie below of the Gebouw Delftse Poort building in Rotterdam by david bijttebier caught out attention this afternoon, it is wonderfully abstract:
It is also worth taking a look at David’s Flickr stream as it contains some interesting ‘greeble‘ and urban related work. Its a nice change from the normal ‘architecture marketing’ presentations that normally dominate.
UrbanTick – a blog written just a few desks away from where we sit – is looking into the way a city lives and breathes. Part of the work is based on the visualisation of GPS tracks, so linking in with another project here at CASA, Richard Milton has written a script to import GPS tracks directly into 3D Studio Max. The script imports a gpx. file and creates a spline for the path, a marker object and time frames for each point.
UrbanTicks first example movie can be seen below:
3dsMaxGPStest from urbanTick on Vimeo.
We need to check the guidelines on the grant that was used to make the script but we think we should be able to release it, hopefully next week…
See http://urbantick.blogspot.com/ for full details on the research and more movies/maps.
We have been doing some photosynth work recently on an automatic workflow for 600+ image captures and upload – so far its working well and we will put up a post shortly, in the meantime photosynth now includes a new over head view, as the video below illustrates:
Photosynth Overhead View from Microsoft Photosynth on Vimeo.
We hope to capture something a little more interesting for the main post on the subject…
Digital Urban has until now been pretty much a one man show and as much as we would like to have four or five posts a day pressures of work are increasingly getting in the way.
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