Comments on: Building by Numbers: Automated Architecture https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/30/building-by-numbers-automated/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kisa Naumova https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/30/building-by-numbers-automated/#comment-2725 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:13:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1616#comment-2725 The process is quite a fiddly one. I start off with the architects’ drawings, and trace out all of the walls, floors, windows — making sure not to make any object bigger than Second Life’s 10m limit. Because Illustrator is 2D, I use the colour of shapes to give information about the height and position in the different channels (red=height, green=z-pos)

Then I save the drawing as an SVG, and run it through a PHP script that I wrote which translates from the XML into a series of comma-seperated lines of text that I can copy-paste into an object in SL. This object then spits out prims based on those lines, which fly themselves to the right position.

I’ve not explained that particularly well, I’m afraid. I should do a proper video tutorial or something. In the meantime, I’ve done a short sped-up film of me using the same technique to rough out some stair-cases…

]]> By: Eric https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/30/building-by-numbers-automated/#comment-2722 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:06:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1616#comment-2722 I also would like to know more about the software backend. It starts out looking like Second Life, but is the actual construction created in SL? Very intriguing and possibly very useful! Cheers.

]]> By: Matt Cooper https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/30/building-by-numbers-automated/#comment-2721 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:21:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1616#comment-2721 i’m intriuged by the software behind this.

What’s the game engine? is it second life?

and what is the modeling done with?

i’d love to get an idea of the workflow…

thanks

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