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Police Agent City Ball – Unity/NavMesh and CityEngine

Andy — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:54:17 +0000

The natural conclusion of our recent posts on Unity and CityEngine is of course a physics/navmesh police chase with the agent target being a drag and drop ball.

Police Car Agents in the City

We will release a version next week on the win/mac platforms for those interested – the aim was to explore shortest path modelling of agents in Unity within an urban scene:
The concept was developed as part of our Masters course here in CASA, to explore the development of 3D interactive urban scenes…

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City in the Sky: 3D Max, V-Ray, Timelapse and After Effects

Andy — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:43:00 +0000

‘City in the sky’ is a concept about an imaginary tranquil oasis above the mega-developed and polluted city, where one can escape from the everyday noise and stress. It was developed as part of the ‘Megatropolis’ project, which started in London with few companies and artists, invited to create their own visions for the future mega-developed city. The metropolis depicted in the video is New York City because that’s where most of the production happened.While the overall ‘Megatropolis’ project didn’t reach a final stage, the presented concept grew into this architectural utopia.

The inspiring movie below is rendered with 3DSMAX and V-Ray. Additional footage and time-lapses shot with Canon5D MKII in New York City. Post&FX in AE:

City in the sky from Tsvetan T on Vimeo.

The end night shot is especially noteworthy…

Take a look at http://www.hrama.com/skycity/ for more info.

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Massive Attack: Splitting the Atom – City in Deconstruction

Andy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:18:00 +0000

Jean-Matthieu from Spot Image sent this one in – a superb video clip of Massive Attack – Splitting the atom (official video), showing and travelling into a 3D city frozen in deconstruction:

Its so good its almost hypnotic, take a look at http://www.edouardsalier.com/ for more info…

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Massive Attack: Splitting the Atom – City in Deconstruction

Andy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:18:00 +0000

Jean-Matthieu from Spot Image sent this one in – a superb video clip of Massive Attack – Splitting the atom (official video), showing and travelling into a 3D city frozen in deconstruction:

Its so good its almost hypnotic, take a look at http://www.edouardsalier.com/ for more info…

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A Motion Generated Cityscape in Cinder

Andy — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:07:00 +0000

Mike Creighton of todaycreate.com loves doing stuff that creates visual rhythm with similar shapes and iteration (see here and here and here and here). He is really into the idea that motion captured data can be turned into something structural, becoming an input stream for a different set of dimensions, to paint an entire world.

The idea is neat and came to Mike as soon as he saw a piece called Ephimicropolis by contemporary artist Peter Root. The system is a work in progress and built using Cinder, in our view its a movie worth watching:

Mike’s next plans are to work with lighting and texture and distribution of elements, you can follow progress over at http://www.todaycreate.com/.

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A Motion Generated Cityscape in Cinder

Andy — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:07:00 +0000

Mike’s next plans are to work with lighting and texture and distribution of elements, you can follow progress over at http://www.todaycreate.com/.

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Voxopolis: 3D City via Conway’s Game of Life

Andy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:15:00 +0000

Build a 3D city using the rules from Conway’s Game of Life and you’ve got our attention. The movie below details such a 3D city engine based developed in Processing by Jeannette Kuo, Dino Rossi and Dominik Zausinger:

The team seem to come from the The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich – a one-year postgraduate program with a focus on computer-based architectural design and its automated production. The program examines the use of current information technologies as an augmentation of concepts of architecture.

Very neat…

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Medieval Dublin 3D Model

Andy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:52:00 +0000

The ability to view the city over time is core to data exploration and integration within a GIS. It also allows lots of nice visuals to be created and one excellent example is Medieval Dublin – From Vikings to Tudors – an interactive DVD box set that illustrates life in Dublin between 800 and 1540 AD:

The DVD explores a 3D model of the walled city, visiting a Viking house as well as strolling down a medieval street.

For more details see http://www.medievaldublin.ie/index.php

Also, take a look at the Silverlight Deepzoom version in the hunt for something rather more seasonal…

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Medieval Dublin 3D Model

Andy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:52:00 +0000

The DVD explores a 3D model of the walled city, visiting a Viking house as well as strolling down a medieval street.

For more details see http://www.medievaldublin.ie/index.php

Also, take a look at the Silverlight Deepzoom version in the hunt for something rather more seasonal…

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Infoterra prepares launch of cutting edge 3D city mapping tool – Skape

Andy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:37:00 +0000

Infoterra Ltd, is a UK based provider of geographic information products and services. We have worked with them quite a lot over the years and they are one of the leading innovators in the field of commercial photogrammerty. It is therefore of note when they send a press release round regarding a brand new 3D city mapping service launching later this year which it says “will have to be seen to be believed”.

Named Skape, it aims to provide B2B professionals with presentational 3D city and mapping data as well as high accuracy building information of the UK’s major cities, all captured by the company’s own dedicated fleet of aircrafts and sensors.

The movie below provides a first look at Skapes output:

The days of grey scale buildings seem to of gone, with Google launching its automated photorealistic cities – see out post on 3D Birmingham – and Infoterra rolling out a similar commercial service it looks like we are entering a new phase of digital cities.

Skape will be launched to the market later this year. To register interest and to receive updates prior to launch, please visit www.skapeworld.com.

See also the Skape Blog for the latest news on the software, views and development.

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