A quick post on this as i am currently sat in a conference and about to lose computer access – an excellent article in technology review on the implications of merging Second Life and Google/Virtual Earth…
‘The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an immersive environment combining Second Life and Google Earth.’
A quick post on this as i am currently sat in a conference and about to lose computer access – an excellent article in technology review on the implications of merging Second Life and Google/Virtual Earth…
‘The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an immersive environment combining Second Life and Google Earth.’
In a follow up to our post on Extracting 3D Geometry from Drawings Barnabu – who modelled the Church of St Martin’s in London – has kindly given us permission to include a movie of the now completed scene:
The model is simple in geometry but impressive in its impact in the move from drawing to 3D reconstruction – a concept that obviously opens up the applications of historic visualisation.
You can download the model directly into Google SketchUp from barnabu’s site.
*posted from a conference at Oxford Uni on Web 2.0 and e-Science where use of computers is strangley banned….*
This should maybe be filed under the heading ‘Fantasy Architecture’ but the proposal for a Mega City Pyramid in Tokyo Bay is genuine although currently not feasible until new materials are developed to support the structure.
Housing over 750,000 people the city is a self contained off shore development 2,004 meters (6,575 feet) high. Extreme Engineering ran a feature on the development including some interesting visualisations, as ever it is now available on YouTube and embedded below:
The clip moves between the ‘wow’ factor of building such a structure and the ‘disaster’ scenario of an off shore development in light of possible typhoons and tsunamis.
To be honest we can’t see it being built but the visualisation is impressive.