Take a look at the movie below and make sure you watch it all the way through – note the export of the model from photosynth into a stand alone 3D package:
This opens up the possibility of using photosynth as a free 3D scanner, and one that would work on objects up to the building level scale. It seems to be early days but there is a lot of discussion going on around the tutorial here.
If anyone has any more insight do let us know via the comments…
Procedural building generators are few are far between so when one comes along that is not only powerful but also free it is well worth our attention. Tyson Ibele, over at http://tysonibele.com/ has released version 1.5 of his Building Generator for 3D Max 9 and above.
The clip below provides a glimpse of its output:
Thanks go to Karel Airapetjan for emailing us in the link.
Our work on Unity stalled for a while due to another projects and deadlines, but we are back on the case from next week with the aim of providing a quick and easy route to visualise agent based models with an urban theme .
The movie below details where we left off:
The ultimate aim is go from popular agent based modelling packages such as NetLogo or Repast into 3D Max and subsequently out to a game engine.
The movie below shows basic agent based models created directly inside of 3D Max:
Crowd and Delegates – Emergent Behaviour from digitalurban on Vimeo.
Finally, below is output from NetLogo visualised in Max – this is now up and running in Unity so the proof of concept seems to work:
Flocking in NetLogo exported to 3D Max from digitalurban on Vimeo.
All being well we should have a plugin for 3D Max available in the next quarter allowing direct input for agent based models.
Our work on Unity stalled for a while due to another projects and deadlines, but we are back on the case from next week with the aim of providing a quick and easy route to visualise agent based models with an urban theme .
The movie below details where we left off:
The ultimate aim is go from popular agent based modelling packages such as NetLogo or Repast into 3D Max and subsequently out to a game engine.
The movie below shows basic agent based models created directly inside of 3D Max:
Crowd and Delegates – Emergent Behaviour from digitalurban on Vimeo.
Finally, below is output from NetLogo visualised in Max – this is now up and running in Unity so the proof of concept seems to work:
Flocking in NetLogo exported to 3D Max from digitalurban on Vimeo.
All being well we should have a plugin for 3D Max available in the next quarter allowing direct input for agent based models.