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Jul 31
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Designing Buildings using a Multi-Touch Display

By 3D Modelling, Multi-Touch

Devices based on touch are becoming increasingly common and are currently deemed to usher in a new type of interface. Google Earth is a natural software product to be adapted for multi touch but is 3D architectural modelling? In the YouTube movie below Architect Doug Look from Autodesk Labs experiments with Autodesk’s design software on a Multi-Touch Wall device:

The wall is an input device produced by Perceptive Pixel and invented by researcher and (TED conference luminary) Jeff Han. Autodesk Labs believes multi-touch human-computer interfaces may dramatically change how products, infrastructure, and buildings are designed.

The second movie below illustrates more of the concept and applications behind Perceptive Pixel:


We kind of want one…

Jul 30
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Iconic London – 3D Tube Map Update

By Iconic London, London Underground

A quick update on our Iconic London 3D Tube Map – we are going through the process of vectorising the base data which basically involves re-entering all the tube station names in 3D Max. Its turning into a slight labour of love which seemed like a good idea when we first thought about it, the image below details progress so far in the central section.

Click and drag to pan or the +/- icons to zoom in and out:


The final London wide version should be ready shortly…

Jul 30
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Iconic London – 3D Tube Map Update

By Iconic London, London Underground

A quick update on our Iconic London 3D Tube Map – we are going through the process of vectorising the base data which basically involves re-entering all the tube station names in 3D Max. Its turning into a slight labour of love which seemed like a good idea when we first thought about it, the image below details progress so far in the central section.

Click and drag to pan or the +/- icons to zoom in and out:


The final London wide version should be ready shortly…

Jul 27
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Data as Architecture – SketchUp Bar Charts

By 3D Max, 3D Modelling, SketchUp

Taking a break from the photorealism we usually feature in our 3D models we have been looking at quick and easy ways to visualise both geographic and non-geographic data. The traditional bar chart hasn’t changed much in terms of presentation since the introduction of Excel.

Yet in the time taken to create an Excel chart the same bar chart can be created in SketchUp in the same way as we model buildings (click for a larger version):

Using a combination of ‘push and pull’ and 3D text it is a quick and easy way to produce charts which can subsequently be rendered for presentation. The chart above details the ‘percentage of dependent children living in workless households by ethnic group in Greater London 2001’.

The same is true of geographic data, it is not always required to go through a high end geographic information system to produce city based data visualisation (click for a larger version):

Indeed by using the ‘components’ feature of SketchUp it is quicker to visualise small data sets direct via ‘push and pull’ rather then merging tables in a GIS package.

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