Established in the UK in 1996 the H4 Group have offices in London, Paris and Nanjing. Working with architects and property developers the company is based around the production of CGI architectural images and visualization, as such their demo reel is up there with the best in the business.
Embedded below the reel has a flowing story line and to be honest we are always sold on seeing small model cities on a table as part of an animation – maybe its just us?:
See h4group.com for more details…
Garmin’s touch screen GPS phone is an intriguing prospect as its being marketed as a’travel assistant’. In our previous post on Garmin nuvifone – A Phone for Neogeographers? we speculated that the ability to geo-tag information live from the phone could make this a ‘must have’ gadget and make us hold off that iPhone purchase for a while longer.
Garmin have released two videos on YouTube that provide a closer look at the phones features. The second of the two is well worth a look as it provides an overview of the location aware applications:
Meet the nuvifone:
Scenarios:
The movies are almost cringe worthy ‘marketing’ fodder but the phone does seem to deliver…
Time will tell when its released third quarter of 2008.
Picked up via the ever essential Engadget.
London Profiler is a web site that enables users to build up a picture of the geo-demographics of Greater London from data on population attributes such as cultural/ethnicity, deprivation, the extent of e-literacy, level of higher education, and health related problems together with the synthetic free geodemographic classifications available in the UK.
The site allows users to visualise themes at different scales, to search by postcode or zoom at borough level, to change the layer’s transparency and to add KML layers.
Developed by our lab (CASA) we are slightly biased here but we think its a great use of Google Maps combined with more traditional GIS data that would not normally be available online in such an easy to use interface.
We will have more on the concept in the coming weeks with the launch of a new mapping website, can’t say too much at the moment but more news soon as we can…
Take the London Profiler for a spin at http://www.londonprofiler.org/
Introversion, the guys behind Darwinia and Defcon are currently working on ‘Subversion’ which features an in-game city generator.
Currently running at over 70,000 buildings generated in approximately one minute the generator is the latest in a series of developments in ‘automatic architecture’ in games.
The YouTube movie embedded below provides a look at a city being generated:
See It’s all in your head, Part 8 (the developers blog) for more details and screenshots.
We picked this one up via the ever readable http://kotaku.com/