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Jul 04
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London – Movie ‘Step Inside Panoramic Globes’ 2

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Continuing the experiments into ‘step inside’ panoramas
we have posted another movie below that takes in the sights of Leicester Square, Tower Bridge, Covent Garden and others. Made in the same style as the previous post it places high resolution panoramas in an x/y/z space allowing the user to ‘step inside’ them.

The movie has some basic shadows on the floor as a test, this however seems problematic due to issues casting shadows onto a globe and the resulting distortion. Various lighting issues also need to be fixed, but we hope you get the general idea….

Jul 03
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Live Weather Conditions – London

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* An update to the post with a new URL at the bottom – Data is uploaded every 2 seconds*

Digital models should reflect the reality of the city, not only the urban form but also environmental conditions – such as the weather. Digitalurban has mounted a wireless weather station on our roof, it provides a myriad of data and is updated every two seconds. It is then possible to embed this data in a web page, using Flash and a product entitled Weather Display Live.

This allows live data to be viewed via the web, with the dials tweening according to local conditions. If this data – or an overview of – such as Sunny, Rain, Partly Cloudy etc could be linked to a 3D model, it would enable it to accurately reflect local conditions. If a number of weather stations are linked up, they could be used to visualise the urban heat island effect, live and in 3D. Combined with symbols and locations for rain fall etc this would provide a live temperature gradient and other weather data in a unique visualisation.

Well that’s the plan, for now you can view the Flash based version, live from our roof.

Jul 03
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Live Weather Conditions – London

By Weather (Live) 5 Comments

* An update to the post with a new URL at the bottom – Data is uploaded every 2 seconds*

Digital models should reflect the reality of the city, not only the urban form but also environmental conditions – such as the weather. Digitalurban has mounted a wireless weather station on our roof, it provides a myriad of data and is updated every two seconds. It is then possible to embed this data in a web page, using Flash and a product entitled Weather Display Live.

This allows live data to be viewed via the web, with the dials tweening according to local conditions. If this data – or an overview of – such as Sunny, Rain, Partly Cloudy etc could be linked to a 3D model, it would enable it to accurately reflect local conditions. If a number of weather stations are linked up, they could be used to visualise the urban heat island effect, live and in 3D. Combined with symbols and locations for rain fall etc this would provide a live temperature gradient and other weather data in a unique visualisation.

Well that’s the plan, for now you can view the Flash based version, live from our roof.

Jun 30
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Google Earth Killer (again)

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CNet have a great video of the new Skyline Globe software. According to their press release Skyline Globe will have unique features such as community and collaboration tools, realistic 3D cities, live video and open interfaces to create a powerful platform.

Interestingly the 3D models seem to be supplied by Planet9 which some may remember from the old days of building cities in VRML2.0.

The Video is impressive but as with unofficial view of ESRI that Google Earth is the new Netsape the additional take that Skyline is a Google Earth beater maybe premature. Their TerraExplorer software was interesting but blocked off to the outside world wanting to develop models.

We met with Skyline a few years ago and were informed (in no uncertain terms) that we could not use their software in any way shape or form to import models unless we signed up. Skyline Globe seems to have free tools but it will be interesting to see how open to the development community they now are.

Interesting times ahead but I think we can be sure that Google are looking into video on terrain and buildings asap. If they can link it in with Flash and YouTube we know which software we will be running with.

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