Last week we posted on our ‘Greeble Earth‘ image as proof of concept for a book cover and by way of an update the proofs are back from the publishers as illustrated below:
We have a chapter in the book entitled ‘The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life’, it should be available in the next couple of months and should you buy it at least your know how the cover was created…
See the Greeble Earth post for the original image and link to the tutorial.
Picked up via Engadget (we know we should be doing better things with our time…) the movie below details DIS.PLAY a flexible display consisting of foam and force sensors which is deformable. The system works with the parameters position and time like other touch screens as well, but in addition to that, it reacts, above all, on the intensity of pressure:
Combine this with a Geographical Information System and a whole number of possible scenarios come to mind such as trying out fluid motion in terms of flooding scenarios by raising or lowering the land….(?)
See http://www.silkehilsing.de/impress/ for full details.
Picked up via Engadget (we know we should be doing better things with our time…) the movie below details DIS.PLAY a flexible display consisting of foam and force sensors which is deformable. The system works with the parameters position and time like other touch screens as well, but in addition to that, it reacts, above all, on the intensity of pressure:
Combine this with a Geographical Information System and a whole number of possible scenarios come to mind such as trying out fluid motion in terms of flooding scenarios by raising or lowering the land….(?)
See http://www.silkehilsing.de/impress/ for full details.
We like iClone, the 3D creation program that allows avatars to be lip synced and placed in 3d scenes, its perfect for story telling, presentations and pre-visualisation. Indeed we have recently used it in a grant bid, sometimes 3D avatars are better at communicating to an audience than 6 sides of A4 paper.
As such their new City Elements series of ‘props’ are of note providing modern New York style streets with Building System that can be connected and combined. The pack includes 12 buildings and 11 shops allowing the creation of a mid-rise neighborhood.
The movie below provides an insight: