The system was developed by Anil Bawa-Cavia of CASA, another example of the kind of data that is currently being processed and visualised in the lab. Take a look at URBAGRAM for more insight into the work.

Would you like to join the team at CASA? We have two lecturing posistions currently available, accepting new PhD students and of course our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV).

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Music ‘Strange Train’ by The Creeping Charlies over at MP3 Unsigned

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The key aim of the New Line project is to meet future demands for additional rail capacity from passengers and freight users linking London and Scotland in under two hours. Normally such plans are illustrated with more traditional ‘transport like’ movies, this time however Network Rail have pulled out all the stops and produced an extremely impressive promo:

Sure the movie doesn’t actually communicate any information, but hey we like all the effects thrown in, especially the liquid being spilled. Style over substance? Definitely, but we really like it…

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The key aim of the New Line project is to meet future demands for additional rail capacity from passengers and freight users linking London and Scotland in under two hours. Normally such plans are illustrated with more traditional ‘transport like’ movies, this time however Network Rail have pulled out all the stops and produced an extremely impressive promo:

Sure the movie doesn’t actually communicate any information, but hey we like all the effects thrown in, especially the liquid being spilled. Style over substance? Definitely, but we really like it…

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The movie above by Steel Blue LLC details various renditions created at different times of project proposals in the Rincon Hill and Transbay Districts of San Francisco. It comes with a few words of warning:

‘Segments of the video may show potential designs of developments that have been revised, put on hold or terminated. Massing location and heights of potential developments may not reflect future zoning revisions by City Planning. Refinement of our 3D San Francisco and future developments are in progress and we look forward to releasing future media. In the meantime specifics about individual project should be located on their respected official websites.’

That said, it is one of those movies to sit back and watch, it is really well done.

You can see more of Steel Blues output on their Vimeo channel.

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We have spent the morning giving the demo version of CityScape 1.6 from PixelActive a spin and we can honestly say we are impressed. CityScape is an urban modeling tool that allows users to build both custom and real-world environments quickly and easily. The focus of the modeler is on allowing developers to concentrate on design rather than the labor involved in creation.

Of note is its support for Max/Maya via COLLADA opening up the possibility for rapid city building – we hope to have more thoughts on CityScape on the blog later next week.

You can download the demo via PixelActive, the movie above gives a good overview.

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We have spent the morning giving the demo version of CityScape 1.6 from PixelActive a spin and we can honestly say we are impressed. CityScape is an urban modeling tool that allows users to build both custom and real-world environments quickly and easily. The focus of the modeler is on allowing developers to concentrate on design rather than the labor involved in creation.

Of note is its support for Max/Maya via COLLADA opening up the possibility for rapid city building – we hope to have more thoughts on CityScape on the blog later next week.

You can download the demo via PixelActive, the movie above gives a good overview.

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In all, the 240 acres of undeveloped land in downtown Sacramento are being transformed into a master-planned, mixed-use development that will become a hub for trains, buses and light rail:

The second movie details a conceptual view of how high speed rail would operate inside of San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal. The end of the clip is our favorite illustrating how the area surrounding the terminal would be impacted by the 13 towers currently proposed for sites surrounding the new station:

You can find out more from http://www.nc3d.com/

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