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Jun 13
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City in the Sky: 3D Max, V-Ray, Timelapse and After Effects

By 3D City, 3dmax, after effects, Timelapse, v-ray

‘City in the sky’ is a concept about an imaginary tranquil oasis above the mega-developed and polluted city, where one can escape from the everyday noise and stress. It was developed as part of the ‘Megatropolis’ project, which started in London with few companies and artists, invited to create their own visions for the future mega-developed city. The metropolis depicted in the video is New York City because that’s where most of the production happened.While the overall ‘Megatropolis’ project didn’t reach a final stage, the presented concept grew into this architectural utopia.


The inspiring movie below is rendered with 3DSMAX and V-Ray. Additional footage and time-lapses shot with Canon5D MKII in New York City. Post&FX in AE:

City in the sky from Tsvetan T on Vimeo.

The end night shot is especially noteworthy…


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

Jun 13
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City 17 and the AR Drone 2

By AR Drone 2, city 17

While planning out some future research in the office this morning the conversation turned to low cost drones with 720p recording. The movie below provides a glimpse of a possible future purchase – the Parrot AR Drone 2:

The cityscape in the movie above, along with the context of the drone, does of course draw up comparisons with the monitors in City 17. Our previous look at the architecture of City 17 provides a glimpse of them hovering over the city:


We don’t wish to paint an overly dystopian future of unmanned drones watching our every move, but to be honest it is looking like they will be increasingly pervasive in coming years.

With that cheery thought, we should have a couple of the units flying around CASA soon, linked to some wider modelling and sensing work….

Jun 11
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The U-City Paradigm: Opportunities and Risks for E-Democracy in Collaborative Planning

By 3D routing, crowdsourced geodata, D-GIS, Future Internet, indoor LBS, indoor routing, OpenStreetMap (OSM), XML3D

We are pleased to announce the latest Future Internet Paper entitled The U-City Paradigm: Opportunities and Risks for E-Democracy in Collaborative Planning by Francesco Rotondo from the Department of Architecture and Town Planning, Bari Polytechnic.

Abstract
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) tools appear to enhance the possibilities offered by a collaborative approach to planning. The present paper analyzes both the results of experiences of the author and of those available in the literature, highlighting possible advantages and disadvantages. After a brief introduction to the meaning of e-democracy, the second part focuses on the role of ICT in collaborative planning, proceeding in the third part to an illustration of an initial panorama of knowledge gathered using ICT in such processes, while discussing criticisms and opportunities. The fourth part discusses the U-city paradigm as a driver of change in urban planning participation processes. Research perspectives are then outlined in the final part.


View the full paper over at Future Internet… (edit – now with the correct link).

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