Digital Urban

Digital Urban is written by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, aimed at examining the latest techniques to visualise the city scape via digital media it covers a lot of the work going on at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.

Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is, when not writing the blog, a Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager at CASA.

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Nov 5
Normal Service Resumes Next Tuesday... : A quick post as we are taking some time out to move flats here in London town....
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Nov 2
Unity - Now Free : Unity, our current development platform of choice here at digital urban, is now available free of charge....
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Oct 28
Mattepainting Toolkit: Creating Photoreal Environments in Maya via Multiple Camera Projections : The clip below was shot was modeled, textured, and rendered with the help of the Glyph Software Mattepainting Toolkit....
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Oct 27
London Aerial Tour - Panoramas taken from a Helicopter : Google may rule the roads with their panoramic images but the true panoramic artists have taken to the skies to show how it should be done....
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Oct 27
Final Call - International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science, Hong Kong : We have a final call for papers in geographic/urban visualisation - the deadline for abstracts has passed but as we are running a workshop send them to us via the contact page and we will sort out the...
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Oct 27
Small Life : We really need to take two days out and do a tilt-shift timelapse of London, the clip below is both charming and inspiring:Small Life in Saxon Switzerland from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.Picked...
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Oct 27
Google Street View Guys: 'We Have to Do the Whole Earth' : We love this:See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.Created by Dan Meth, Dan has also created a next timelapse entitled 'Road Trip' using Google Street view:The Promised Land from Da...
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Oct 27
Procedural Building Generator v0.5 Launched : Tyson Ibele, over at http://tysonibele.com/ has released the latest version of his Building Generator for 3D Max 9 and above....
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Oct 27
Two Tenure-Stream Appointments at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto : The John H....
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Oct 27
Sketch Shapes in Augmented Reality - iPhone App (Hacked) : The excellent ReadWriteWeb site has a neat article on 'Devs Hack iPhone API for True Augmented Reality 'In short - take a look at the movie below and note the ability to draw shapes and then render vi...
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Oct 27
Indoor Autonomous Mapping and Navigation : The movie below details the work led by Nick Roy at the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL, MIT....
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Oct 27
MapTube: Now with 145 Census Maps : As part of work on the JISC funded National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation project, CASA has put online 145 census maps....
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Oct 27
CryEngine 3: Demo Movie : The movie below provides an insight into possible new workflows for urban and geographic visualisation - detailing the new sandbox of the CryEngine 3 from Crytek it has us flicking through the pages o...
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Oct 27
Auckland 2100 Visualisation : Anything that includes a distopian city vision complete with 'blimps' gets our attention - below is a vision of Auckland in 2100:Auckland 2100 Visualisation from Media Design School on Vimeo.The clip...
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Oct 27
Google Building Maker: CANOMA(ish) + The Crowd = 3D Cities : Google's Building Maker is a stroke of genius, essentially a mix of CANOMA with the crowd to get users to populate the earth with 3D buildings....
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Oct 27
Ordnance Survey: 3D Cities and Accuracy Never Seen Before : We have a lot of time for the good people down at the Ordnance Survey Research Labs and they have just released an interesting video of some 3D Cities work they are carrying out:The Telegraph has a go...
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Oct 27
Gebouw Delftse Poort Animation : The movie below of the Gebouw Delftse Poort building in Rotterdam by david bijttebier caught out attention this afternoon, it is wonderfully abstract:It is also worth taking a look at David's Flickr s...
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