The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Alice is a easy to use 3D programming environment where one can create an animation for telling a story or be used for playing an interactive game. It is designed to teach the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. In Alice, people, a…
Continue reading »Today is the second day of the Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers in Lisbon at ISCTE-IUL. The conference aims to share recent researches on urban contexts from many different areas of social sciences, to discuss current theoreti…
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Continue reading »Often the gaming world is closer to the urban modelling and transport flow research world than many would think. One such case is Cities in Motion (CIM) a city-based mass transportation simulator for the PC. Players operate their own transportation com…
Continue reading »Yes the U.S.S.R. had its own maps of London, and other […]
Continue reading »The other day I was teaching a class in the Introduction of Computational Social Science at GMU on complex adaptive systems and I came across the talk below by John Holland and thought it was worth sharing.
Continue reading »The other day I was teaching a class in the Introduction of Computational Social Science at GMU on complex adaptive systems and I came across the talk below by John Holland and thought it was worth sharing.
Continue reading »Emergencies are times of great uncertainty and while GIS has been used for a long time for planning evacuations, it has only been during the last few years that agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to study peoples behavior in such situations. …
Continue reading »Emergencies are times of great uncertainty and while GIS has been used for a long time for planning evacuations, it has only been during the last few years that agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to study peoples behavior in such situations. …
Continue reading »You go to conferences and learn about older papers that you should have known about. This short article from 1999 by Thomas Graedel poses the key issues about energy, ecosystems and cities, part of a series from the National Academy … Continue reading →
Continue reading »This will be some relate, but maybe thrown together rumbling over a trip to Lisbon with bits and pieces of a conference and various thoughts and discussion extracts that link to this particular context. Being on the road usually brings up numerous new …
Continue reading »The main focus of most efforts like the one portraied seem to be Internet images, maybe because of the untapped resource it is, for the sheer volume of images available. But you can do it with your one images also, as we have been doing it in my resear…
Continue reading »Interesting. Is it possible to extract the resulting 3D object and import it into, say, Poser? Or create from it a Collada file and import that into Second Life?
Continue reading »With a few notable exceptions such as Cambridge, cycling in UK cities is minimal compared…
Continue reading »At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini demoed how the company’s processors are being used to render a 3D model from millions of user-generated images taken from photo-sharing sites such as Flicker and Picasa. We like …
Continue reading »I will be at the 7th Virtual Cities and Territories conference in Lisbon today. The conference ihas six theme tracks Modeling for urban and spatial analysis, Sustainability, Urban Form and Urban Design, New Technologies in Architecture, Urban Design an…
Continue reading »EDIT: Andrzej Bieniek brought to my attention that this version is correct to 100m. For a more accurate script (accurate to 5m) see my new post. I have recently started to […]
Continue reading »The Nottingham Caves Survey is in the process of recording all of Nottingham’s 450+ sandstone caves. The movie below is in stunning detail based purely on a LiDAR scan capturing 500,000 survey points per second:
Head over to http://nottin…
Continue reading »What a great idea:”The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to.”The movie below gives a nice overview of its a…
Continue reading »What a great idea:”The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to.”The movie below gives a nice overview of its a…
Continue reading »Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twitter data (especially with location information) but as an academic seeking to publish in many of the journals that feature in people’s tweets I was prepared to make an …
Continue reading »In the first FBX exporter post I got to the point where the export of simple geometry from one of the Autodesk SDK examples could be loaded by the Quicktime plugin. This used the SDK as a multithreaded statically linked library which I used with one of the examples to create a plane object. The following […]
Continue reading »The movie below provides a view on the future of Augmented Reality. We are big fans of augmented reality here at digital urban but someone we dont quite see it as the future. There is something that simply does not feel right within the general day to …
Continue reading »The whole ‘2.0’ thing has been slightly overdone, however Earth 2.0 is a really nice movie:
Take a look at the Earth 2.0 channel on YouTube for more movies…
Continue reading »Twitter data is becoming a new rawmaterial for representing cities. Visualisations are being produced frequently. The latest addition comes from Trendsmap the online platform visualising emerging Twitter trends. The guys have produced visualisations fo…
Continue reading »I’ve been looking at how to export the geographic information contained in a MapTube map into an art tool like 3DS Max or Maya. The reason for this is firstly to make it easier to produce high quality geographic presentations, but also, by employing a recognised art tool chain, we can also get the data […]
Continue reading »This is what we call an advancement in technology. We can now track a train, a toy and a pet. Nothing is away from our reach. I am sure that this will again benefit in all walks of life.
Continue reading »Eduard Tufte is one of the key theorist on visualisation design and graphics communication. His books have sold extremely well and his concepts have been picked up by a lot of influential designers. He is quoted frequently in writings and has very larg…
Continue reading »About 6,600 according to the Mayor and cited in this Evening Standard article. But these include the bikes in storage, such bikes are not much help to people wanting to use them on the streets of the capital. A more … Continue reading →
Continue reading »On Tuesday I was lucky enough to take part in the first ever Science Showoff (sso), a science communication “open mic” night, where people can sign up to perform 10 minutes about pretty much any aspect of science – there … Continue reading →
I submitted my PhD thesis in January 2011, and was awarded the degree after my viva in March. You can see the thesis in in full by clicking on the…
Continue reading »It is autumn, the leaves are falling and the sun stands low on the horizon. A great time with intensive colours, moody weather and the air feels heavier. Its time to wrap up and look back at the rest of a year that has passed. Wh not going back to spri…
Continue reading »is a project led by ETH Zurich and UCL which deals with the simulation of highly interconnected coupled social systems characterised by extreme events and fast dynamics: i.e. things that go on in Cities. See it on Vimeo, explore the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Firstly apologies, the blog has been sat on the sidelines waiting for a post while i have been in a whirlwind of a three weeks. The good news is the blog is back, in short, we have been in the process recently of securing grants, launching a new Master…
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Continue reading »In the past few weeks our mathmo team: Toby Davies, Peter Baudains and myself, have been looking into some of the reasons why the London riots happened. If we […]
Continue reading »This guide should give you a good overview of the packages you’ll need to download and install to start scientific programming using Python. First, Python itself. Python 2.7 is the latest…
Continue reading »I’ve added Lille and Bath to the Bike Share Map. Lille’s system, V’Lille, was soft-launched a few weeks ago, while Bike in Bath, a very small system run by Bicincitta, also launched recently. Bath’s uptake so far seems to have … Continue reading →
Continue reading »This year we received 6 entries to the Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. These came from the Universities of Exeter, Southampton, Leeds, Nottingham, Durham and Liverpool. The dissertations underline the range of subjects covered by undergraduate population geographers, with topics including: Class and access to higher education Geography of attitudes towards alcohol consumption Growth and change of a New Town (Milton Keynes) […]
Continue reading »The spatial dimension of reading is an interesting aspect in so far as to how far it can actually become the main subject. A lot of narratives make extensive use of space and lace description and the location is often as important as the characters who…
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