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Processing – Building Structures with Cellular Automata

Andy — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:39:00 +0000

As part of the MRes of Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation in CASA, the course has been exploring various techniques relevant to urban modelling and visualisations, such as Cellular Automata and (CA), Agents Based Modelling. These approaches can be abstract visualizations and in these terms, Flora from http://en-topia.blogspot.co.uk/ has been looking in CA by building vertical structures over time using Processing.

The clip was created in the context of the the visualization course by Martin Austwick, in the MRes ASAV 2011.

Music: J.S. Bach Menuet Gameboy Tetris.

Take a look at http://en-topia.blogspot.co.uk/ for more…

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Visualising World Flight-Paths in 3D

Andy — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:11:00 +0000

Robin of geotheory.org and a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course here at CASA, University College London has created an interesting movie looking at data from openflights.org.

Created in Processing the clip visualises 50,000 active flight-paths:

Take a look at http://geotheory.org/ for more examples…

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GPS Visualisation in Processing

Andy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:30:00 +0000

Over the last few weeks we have been kicking about with some books on ‘Processing‘ the open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. We have been reading them with a number of thoughts in mind, one of which is the visualisation of GPS tracks. The people behind Spatial Nodes have done some good work, the movie below shows the tracks of 8 people in Amsterdam:

Tracks in the void from Steven M. Ottens on Vimeo.
UrbanTick has also started looking into the technique with their first clip based around the UrbanDiary project, recorded between April and August 2009:

If you want to do these yourself a good start is to take a look at http://www.learningprocessing.com/ Daniels book at the site is one of the best tutorial books we have read in a while.

Also, Visualizing Data by Ben Fry is a good second step, link this with an Arduino Unit and things begin to get interesting in terms of the possibilities for interaction and visualistion of the urban environment.

We will have more on linking Ardunio, Processing and general visualisation in future posts.

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GPS Visualisation in Processing

Andy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:30:00 +0000

If you want to do these yourself a good start is to take a look at http://www.learningprocessing.com/ Daniels book at the site is one of the best tutorial books we have read in a while.

We will have more on linking Ardunio, Processing and general visualisation in future posts.

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Processing: A 3D City in One Minute

Andy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:33:00 +0000

We have featured the students work as part of the The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich quite a lot recently and we are quite fastidious as to what goes on the blog. It goes to show the quality of the output.

The following example by Jakob Przybylo, Min-Chieh Chen and Michele Leidi is a typical – this time creating a city using processing:

Processing City – Sandy City (Trailer) from mjchen on Vimeo.

The clip below provides an insight into the process:

Processing City – Sandy City (HD version) from mjchen on Vimeo.

Being able to create a city in one minute – using their processing application is impressive, it also allows output via .dxf, as such it can be imported into any number of rendering/modelling packages.

No word yet on a wider release, but it would be good to see if this could be made available….

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