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Cities in Games: Chernobyl in Call of Duty 4

By Cities in Games

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. Available for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 it features various real world locations, one of them being set in Chernobyl.

The movie embedded below illustrates a series of photos taken from inside Chernobyl and the in-game models:


The original movie on YouTube is also worth a look, although it only contains the city photographs.

The full level in Call of Duty 4 can be seen below, the architecture in the movie above can be clearly seen, it is an impressive if chilling rendition of Chernobyl:

See http://www.nextgenboards.com/ for the full story behind the images…

Feb 04
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Augmenting Reality: Geographical and Architectural Visualisation

By Augmented Reality

Here at digital urban we think Augmented Reality technology has a place in presentations and meetings, it provides a simple yet impressive way to visualise anything from the future of cities to geographical landscapes.

It also captures the publics imagination and thus provides a useful tool for engagement and understanding.

Embedded below is a ‘Magic Book’ movie uploaded by http://www.metaio.com/ to YouTube:

The good news is that Augmented Reality is surpisingly easy to implement, all you need is a webcam and a printer for the marker sheet.

See our Tutorial – Quick and Easy Augmented Reality from SketchUp/3DMax etc for full details on how to create your own ‘Magic Book’ or geographical/architectural visualisations using Augmented Reality.

Feb 04
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The Earth is Growing? A Visualisation by Neal Adams

By Earth

Neal Adams has uploaded to YouTube an interesting (ok controversial) animation about his theory that the Earth is growing.

Its 10 minutes long but strangly fascinatingly, Neal claims that we are being shielded from the truth that the Earth is in fact growing:

We are not going to comment on the science, suffice to say the movie has attracted 15,000 comments on YouTube…

Feb 04
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Gamescape: Create a City while Playing a Game

By Cities in Games, Google Earth


Gamescape is an interesting concept – the players in game movements are translated into 3d floorplans. As gameplay progresses levels are added and over time structures develop which in turn build into cityscapes that can subsequently be downloaded and imported into Google Earth.

Is the sort of concept that does not translate well to text, the movie below provides a clearer insight:

The concept has been developed by ‘and-or.ch’- an art group which is looking to find new ways of communication by tapping into the subconscious streams of human minds and network data. and-or was been founded in 2001 by Rene Bauer and Beat Suter, based in Zurich, Switzerland.

For more info, Google Earth examples and to download the game see: http://www.and-or.ch/gamescape/

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