Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
This is a quick post – just to mention that our animation of the London Underground is now on Vimeo. Next step, if we get time, is to animate it according to the year of construction: Second Movie of the ‘Growing’ London Underground Network from digitalurban on Vimeo. Music is…
Sometimes when jumping from project to project and tutorial to tutorial projects get lost and posts overlooked. One such example is our 3D Tube Map which, despite being something we are quite proud off, sat on the shelf for a while due to lack of time. Embedded below is the…
Another update on progress with regards our 3D London Underground map. The main map is complete providing a top down view of the actual geographic location of the London Underground Network. At the moment we are working on ways to give it a alpha channel and overlay on Google Maps,…
A quick update on our Iconic London 3D Tube Map – we are going through the process of vectorising the base data which basically involves re-entering all the tube station names in 3D Max. Its turning into a slight labour of love which seemed like a good idea when we…
Since the arrival of Google Earth a lot of our work has been focused on the geographic and photorealistic representation of the city. With a Geographical Information System (GIS) you can easily overlay data and communicate issues to the public at large. An example of this is our air pollution…
Readers maybe aware of our on-going work to build a 3D map of the London Tube network. Depth information is hard to come by due to issues of security therefore the work has concentrated on creating a 3D geographic location map. Aimed at creating a ‘plasticine‘ look to the routes…
Rapid visualisation of networks can be carried out by simply converting Adobe Acrobat documents to .dwg format as we detail below with a quick render of the London Tube map: Modelling of the tube lines was possible using the following workflow: 1) Download a Acrobat formatted 2D map from the…
A while ago we built a map of the London Tube network.. its neat but to be honest not all that much use (?). Somewhere on our hardrive is a real location of the map in 3D as well, we will hopefully dig that back out in a few days….
A quick update on the real 3D tube map of London. Data on the depth of the tube stations is proving tricky to get hold of due to security issues. One simple way would be to count the number of steps down to each station – so if anyone on…
The majority of our movies have been encoded in Divx which although useful for compression does mean that people need the correct codec installed. As a test we have put online a movie encoded into Flash so the majority of users will be able to view it. The filesize is…
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