The movie above illustrates a preview of 3D Trondhiem in Norway, produced by C3.
The modelling process is automated, with the textures and mesh produced purely from imagery and not from the more traditional LiDAR approach. C3 are defiantly a company to watch out for in terms of 3D city models.
See http://kart.sesam.no/3d/ for a 3D flythough (Windows only at the moment) and http://www.c3technologies.com for more info.
We have been quite taken with fake tilt shift imagery recently – its a unique way to visualise the city in model form. Google Earth of course makes the perfect candidate for fake tilt shift images and videos, Inoue_k3D’s example of San Francisco is an excellent example:
Video manipulation is becoming the next big thing online. Techniques that were once limited to high end commercial studios are coming out as web based services, services that have huge potential for data communication and visualisation.
Take a look at the latest service from Standard University below, known as ZunaVision:
Note how the shadows fall on the walls as well as the video, if you have a video you would like a try the simple go to http://zunavision.stanford.edu/ to try it out.
We have just hit the grand old age of 1000 posts. Digital Urban has been running for just under 3 years now and as you may of noticed the format and rate of posting has changed from time to time.
At the moment we are introducing new tutorials and widening the remit a little into areas such as video manipulation, data visualisation, simulation and other topics concerned with the digital city.
This is probably our first self congratulatory post but hey after a good 200,000 words we hope our posts have helped, inspired or just simply proved a good read from time to time…