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The Connected Home: MIT Visualisation

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Connected Home from MIT Mobile Experience Lab on Vimeo.

The visualisation above comes out of MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab in collaboration with Cisco Systems – Internet Business Solutions Group.

The Connected Home of the future, according to the lab, will incorporate an integrated approach to buildings and their interaction with occupants, the local community, and beyond. The demonstration above of the Connected Home of the future incorporates smart energy solutions, automated services and efficiency measures to aid citizens lead more sustainable lives.

Technologies such as a Personal Travel Assistant, energy monitoring tools, TelePresence and social networking interactions, and energy grids for micro generation of energy across the urban community illustrate how citizens can play a positive and sustainable role in their urban landscape.

For more information see mobile.mit.edu/connected-urban-development/ and
connectedurbandevelopment.org

Urban Circus: The Urban Engine Real-Time Demo

By 3D City Model, urban circus


Urban Engine – live demo of 3D real-time in action from Urban Circus on Vimeo.

Embedded above is a real-time look at the Urban Engine presented by Dr Ben Guy, Director of Urban Circus.

The engine seems impressive, especially in terms of transport visualisation, below is an example of using the engine to visualise a proposed transit station in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast of Australia:


Bus Rapid Transport – Broadbeach from Urban Circus on Vimeo.

The ability to fly real-time through a scene is without question one of the most important aspects of city models for urban planning / architectural visualisation when aiming to communicate ‘non fixed’ design decisions. Highly rendered fly through movies can often alienate the public at large as it seems as if planning decisions have already been taken, leaving the renderings to come across as sometimes little more than marketing movies.

Take a look at http://www.circus3d.com/ for more info.

Urban Circus: The Urban Engine Real-Time Demo

By 3D City Model, urban circus


Urban Engine – live demo of 3D real-time in action from Urban Circus on Vimeo.

Embedded above is a real-time look at the Urban Engine presented by Dr Ben Guy, Director of Urban Circus.

The engine seems impressive, especially in terms of transport visualisation, below is an example of using the engine to visualise a proposed transit station in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast of Australia:


Bus Rapid Transport – Broadbeach from Urban Circus on Vimeo.

The ability to fly real-time through a scene is without question one of the most important aspects of city models for urban planning / architectural visualisation when aiming to communicate ‘non fixed’ design decisions. Highly rendered fly through movies can often alienate the public at large as it seems as if planning decisions have already been taken, leaving the renderings to come across as sometimes little more than marketing movies.

Take a look at http://www.circus3d.com/ for more info.

Crysis: Physics Engine Movies

By Crysis, Featured Game Engine, Game Engine, Physics Engines


Crysis LEGO map from Robert Tieber on Vimeo.

The Crysis engine has an inbuilt physics system that supports vehicles, rigid bodies, liquid, rag doll, cloth and soft body effects. The movies in this post provide a glimpse of the physics engine in action, the first clip above demonstrates the ‘Lego’ modification running in real-time.
The following movies illustrate the use of the physics engine of Crysis in maximum effect. Note each one was rendered frame by frame using the ‘linked method’, take a look at this thread for full details.

Crysis Mass Physics HD By ÂLÐÒ•Ó from Ald0o0 on Vimeo.
Continuing the theme:

Crysis Mass Physics HD VOL II By ÂLÐÒ•Ó from Ald0o0 on Vimeo.

Crysis Mass Physics HD VOL III By ÂLÐÒ•Ó from Ald0o0 on Vimeo.
Finally applying the technique to buildings:

Readers may recall our work earlier work in Crysis, a change of deadlines stalled the earlier work somewhat but we will be returning to Crysis in terms of physics, agents and urban modelling in the coming months…

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