I am off to give a talk at the Oxford Institute for Technology today so posts will resume as normal tomorrow. Of interest this week is a review of the recently released RealViz Stitcher Unlimited, the second part of the Oblivion Games Engine Tutorial and news on our update to Google Map Creator, funded as part of the E-Science node of NeCSS.
Right, off to catch the train…
According to the Wiki the Dubai Waterfront is proposed to become the largest waterfront and largest man-made development in the world. The project is a conglomeration of canals and artificial islands; it will occupy the last remaining Persian Gulf coastline of Dubai, the most populous emirate of the United Arab Emirates. It will consist of a series of zones with mixed use including commercial, residential, resort, and amenity areas. The vision of the project is “to create a world-class destination for residents, visitors and businesses in the world’s fastest growing city”.
Developed around 11 key zones the total coverage will be larger than Manhattan and housing 700,000 people. In essence the development is a new city on the waterfront in a city that is expected to grow from 1.2 million to 4 million in population by 2020.
The marketing movie below provides an insight into the plans:
As is to be expected form Dubai the vision of architecture, urban design and town planning have been integrated into a living environment and skyline that approaches an almost Bladerunner-esk view.
Find out more from the Dubai Waterfront site.
According to the Wiki the Dubai Waterfront is proposed to become the largest waterfront and largest man-made development in the world. The project is a conglomeration of canals and artificial islands; it will occupy the last remaining Persian Gulf coastline of Dubai, the most populous emirate of the United Arab Emirates. It will consist of a series of zones with mixed use including commercial, residential, resort, and amenity areas. The vision of the project is “to create a world-class destination for residents, visitors and businesses in the world’s fastest growing city”.
Developed around 11 key zones the total coverage will be larger than Manhattan and housing 700,000 people. In essence the development is a new city on the waterfront in a city that is expected to grow from 1.2 million to 4 million in population by 2020.
The marketing movie below provides an insight into the plans:
As is to be expected form Dubai the vision of architecture, urban design and town planning have been integrated into a living environment and skyline that approaches an almost Bladerunner-esk view.
Find out more from the Dubai Waterfront site.
Another week and its been a busy one with insights into Architecture in Virtual Worlds, Microsoft’s Surface Computer, The Hanoi Transit System Visualisation, Fantasy Architecture in SketchUp, The London Lightship Panorama, Google Street View Image Glitches, Global Data Visualisation via Google Tools, Panoramas in Gostyn, Poland, Morphing the Underground from London to Seoul and Microsofts Photosynth’s London data set. Which brings us to the traditional Friday Urban Line Rider posts – this weeks its the ‘City Escape’ by jstiller30:
If you make your own Urban Line Rider scene let us know, you can start by going to the Line Rider site.