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May 31
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SLACTIONS 2012 Machinima – International Festival

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This year, and for the first time, the SLACTIONS Steering Committee has included a day devoted to Machinima in the conference program. The SLACTIONS 2012 Machinima Festival is a Machinima competition included on the SLACTIONS 2012 Research conference on virtual worlds. 


Conference calls are to be honest normally slightly dull, this one however is inspriational and its just got us fired up again about virtual worlds:


The RL/SL conference takes place between 15 November 2012 and 17 November 2012. 


Official SLACTIONS 2012 website http://www.slactions.org/2012/?page_id=152


Thanks to Dr Andrew Crooks of  www.gisagents.blogspot.com  for sending this our way.

May 30
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SimCity GlassBox Game Engine: 4 Simulation Examples

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Electronic Arts has released 4 short clips examining the simulation capability of the GlassBox Game Engine behind the forthcoming SimCity update.

Image: Traffic Density in the original SimCity release.

The mix of agent based modelling, economic fire, water etc make for a complex system running within the game engine. As ever with games vs academic models the argument is that gaming is often a ‘black box’ approach where the model algorithms are unknown and cannot be tweaked. We would argue back that the interaction of all these models in one system takes the modelling approach to urban growth one step forward, if we could get inside the GlassBox and create a ‘SimCity for Real’ using real-world data it could be a game changer.
SimCity Insider’s Look GlassBox Game Engine – Part 1

SimCity GlassBox Game Engine Part 2 – The Economic Engine Scenario 1

SimCity GlassBox Game Engine Part 3 – The Economic Engine Scenario 2

SimCity GlassBox Game Engine Part 2 – Scenario 3: Fire

Find out more over at http://www.simcity.com/

May 29
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The world’s first complete Compact Surveillance Radar kit – Realtime Crowd Analysis?

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At night or in bad weather, elite military and security professionals are reliant on technology to find potential threats. Infrared and video cameras can not get enough pixels on target to cover wide areas. But radar coupled with a PTZ camera and you have a winning solution that covers a wide area and which then allows you to slew the camera to the potential threat and identify the target.

Now thats all well and good in a slightly over the top military manner but in the centre of a city there is not much need to use a personal elite military system. It does strike us however that the technology would be suitbale for real-time crowd tracking, site analysis and modelling validation, with the that in mind take a look at the movie below:

Using radar in an urban setting for crowd tracking could open up new views on urban systems. To

Find out more check out http://spotterrf.com/rbk.html
May 29
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The world’s first complete Compact Surveillance Radar kit – Realtime Crowd Analysis?

By Posts One Comment

At night or in bad weather, elite military and security professionals are reliant on technology to find potential threats. Infrared and video cameras can not get enough pixels on target to cover wide areas. But radar coupled with a PTZ camera and you have a winning solution that covers a wide area and which then allows you to slew the camera to the potential threat and identify the target.

Now thats all well and good in a slightly over the top military manner but in the centre of a city there is not much need to use a personal elite military system. It does strike us however that the technology would be suitbale for real-time crowd tracking, site analysis and modelling validation, with the that in mind take a look at the movie below:

Using radar in an urban setting for crowd tracking could open up new views on urban systems. To

Find out more check out http://spotterrf.com/rbk.html
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