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Nov 18
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3D Map of London’s Urban Complexity

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Dr Duncan Smith, a Research Fellow here in CASA and author of our latest blog – Urban Geographics has produced an interesting visualisation of London’s Urban form:

The visualisation of the density and function of the built-environment shows the dominance of the intensifying city-centre, corridors of commercial development and the smaller scale centres in Outer London. The data comes from the Valuation Office and the Greater London Authority. For more info and a write up of the background to the viz, take a look at http://www.geographics.blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk

Nov 16
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Crowd Density at the Lord Mayor’s Show 2011 (London, UK)

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Sometimes you walk to the end of lab, here in CASA, get introduced to a visitor and have to take a step back at the resulting demo. Yesterday i had the pleasure of meeting Tobias Franke of the University of Passau’s Embedded System Lab who is part of a team looking at realtime crowd densities. Tobias has run a trial during the 2011 Lord Mayor’s Show in London. The “hotter” (i.e. red) the blobs are, the denser the crowd was at that location, the resulting visualisation is impressive:


The data was been gathered by a smartphone application collecting live sensor data from users. The heatmap and the corresponding visualization was realised by Martin Wirz of the ETH Zurich’s Wearable Computing Lab with Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly (director of the Complexity Group at the London School of Economics) involved in the development as policy maker. The overall system allows emergency services to gain an almost-live insight into the crowd density at large scale events with data has been collected and processed using the CoenoSense backand system (www.coenosense.com). The software has been developed as a part of the Socionical research project (for more information see socionical.eu), in short we were impressed at the real time crowd viz via a smart phone app…

Nov 09
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Instant City Generator for Cinema 4D

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Building a 3D city can take time and sometimes an off the shelf solution is the best option for moving a project forward. As such the City Kit by GreyScaleGorilla is well with a look. Running in Cinema 4D the kits allows the rapid construction of cityscapes with a range of customisation options, the movie embedded below provides a good overview:

At $149 CityKit is well worth a look, head over to http://greyscalegorilla.com/citykit/ for full details.

Nov 03
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I Look and Move

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Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were shot in Moscow, even the beach scene was shot in the capital, next to the Moskva River:


We like the iPhone/Map section and the jumping off a building, its really nicely made. Over at http://teeter-totter-tam.ru/ (great domain name) they have a full ‘making off’ write up, it is well worth a look…

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