The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Introduction Viewing real-time data from a personal weather station such as a Davis Vantage Pro, a Tempest, or an EcoWhitt device can be complex. However, the majority of systems that…
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The Met Office, as the national meteorological service for the United Kingdom, provides valuable weather data through its API called DataPoint. This API caters to a wide range of users, including professionals, scien…
Artificial Intelligence is on everyone’s minds, and so is the human-induced environmental decline of our planet Earth. The Connected Environments team, as part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial…
Continue reading »Imagine wielding the power of the Force, not to fight Sith Lords, but to display real-time data – in our case, wind speed, but the code/build can be adapted to any data feed. Using a NeoPixel strip inside a lightsaber tube,…
Continue reading » Traditional German weather houses are small, decorative structures that are popular in Germany and other parts of Europe. They are often made from wood and used to predict the weather.
A Traditional Weather House
The way the wea…
Continue reading »Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post on 500 Words a Day, Academic Writing. Noting that its not something many academics admit – but writing is hard, not for all, there are some academics who simply flow words but for many its …
Continue reading »Pimoroni make a range of LED matrix displays with Pi Pico W’s built in – previously we have used the large scale Pimoroni Galatic Unicorn and added a series of…
Continue reading »Every app has a story, from the idea through to story boarding, finding a design team, working with in house computer scientists or outsourcing. All of these steps take time,…
Continue reading »“Frame-IT is the perfect app for anyone who loves to display websites in style. With Frame-IT, you can put a beautiful picture frame around any website, making it look like…
Continue reading »Developed at the Connected Environments Lab at The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, the Open Gauges Project was launched in October 2021 as part of the Module on Sensor Data Visualisation (CASA0019…
Continue reading »Another new paper – this time with Michael Batty – We sketch a brief history of the development of virtual geographic environments which build on online gaming, three-dimensional representations of…
Continue reading »Another new paper, written with a number of colleagues from The Bartlett School of Planning – The paper is based on the experience of creating and piloting a functioning ‘Incubator’…
Continue reading »The planning process has been, arguably, slow to adapt and adopt new technologies: It is perhaps only now that it is starting to move into a more digitally focused era. Yet, it is not the current thinking around the digital that …
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The Open Gauges project aims to allow open-source data gauges to be built, modified, and viewed as both physical (3d printed) and digital gauges. Depending on the user’s preference the models can be made t…
This article presents a practice-led investigation by a cross-disciplinary team of artists and computer scientists into the potential for mobile and digital communications technologies to engage visitors to London’s Hampstead…
Continue reading »AllSky is an outstanding package for the Raspberry Pi, allowing the capture of long exposures using either the Raspberry Pi HQ camera with a fish eye lens or the more specialised ZWO astronomy cameras. All it needs is a casing and w…
Continue reading »Data stores, intelligent real-time data collection, access to city-wide infrastructure and urban informatics, which involves new and powerful analytics associated with using big data to understand and control various functions…
Continue reading »Urban Internet of Things (IoT) is in an early speculative phase. Often linked to the smart city movement, it provides a way of sensing and collecting data—environmental, societal, and transitional—both…
Continue reading »Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) make it technically possible for digital assets to be owned and traded, introducing the concept of scarcity in the digital realm for the first time. Resulting from…
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As part of a future ‘Easter’ themed promotion we have produced a short teaser clip around ‘cubes in the city’. The movie was produced using ESRI City Engine, 3D Max and Lumion – it is also being used as part of our Masters course on Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation…
Continue reading »This is intriguing, a new 3D package to map and explore data – Datascape, by Daden Ltd, known perviously for their work in Second Life, provides an immersive environment in which users can explore and interact with data from almost any source. David Burden, Daden’s Managing Director said “Datascape is ground-breaking and we’re…
Continue reading »Researchers here in CASA, University College London, from the TALISMAN node of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) are working on urban simulations and procedural modelling. As part of the public outreach side of the work, they have created a Pigeon Simulator where you can fly like a pigeon…
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CityEngine 2012 now supports easy-to-use editing tools for the quick sketching and texturing of 3D building models (read SketchUp): Its only towards the end of the clip that you realise that the resulting 3D geometries can be saved back to the file geodatabase, allowing proceduaural modelling of your SketchUp style models…. CityEngine…
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With the latest version of Augmented Reality Player for iOS v1.2.0 users can now choose geo-location as a visualization option for their projects. The Geo-location feature allows to use GPS coordinates to locate a 3D model/animation on the earth’s surface. The software then tracks the 3D model coordinates in the…
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Below is a tiltshift timelapse of a junction in Pittsburgh, running at over 9 minutes at 30 frames per second with one photograph captured every second it was produced using the IPad 3 and Miniatures: Miniatures adds a tiltshift effect to each frame, making creating HD timelapses amazingly easy…
Continue reading »We are over in Pittsburgh for Ubicomp 2012, kicking off the 5 day conference is Steve Cousins, President and CEO of Willow Garage, a robotics company that acts a a catalyst to create a new industry in personal robotics by creating open source software and state-of-the-art robot hardware. Robots are…
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Researchers from UCL have analysed millions of Oyster Card journeys in a bid to understand how, why and where we travel in London. Professor Michael Batty (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) and Dr Soong Kang (UCL Management Science and Innovation) applied the techniques of statistical physics to their mountain…
Continue reading »Future Internet has published the latest paper as part of the Special Issue Government 2.0 entitled Raising Risk Awareness on the Adoption of Web 2.0 Technologies in Decision Making Processes by Marco Prandini and Marco Ramilli of the Università di Bologna: Abstract In the recent past, the so-called “Web 2.0” became a powerful tool for decision making processes. Politicians and […]
Continue reading »The way we get around is changing. We increasingly combine bikes and transit. And in many cities we’re seeing a birth of whole new modes of transport like bike-share and carshare. Over at OpenPlans they build open source tools that are responsive to these changes and let us imagine new ways of moving and with […]
Continue reading »The Go Pro HD Hero is one of the best timelapse cameras out there for 24 hour imagery, its wide angle lens, the ability to power via USB and mount on an outside facing glass window via its suction cup makes it easy to set up and leave. The camera copes well with changes in […]
Continue reading »We like this more than we should, the thought of going from ArcScene to a 3D Colour Hologram for public participation in planning seems light years away from the traditional setup: The concept also works via SketchUp and other 3D software, below is a 3D holographic print of Downtown Seattle: Head over to http://www.zebraimaging.com/ to create […]
Continue reading »We have updated our live weather page to work with the iPad/iPhone and other HTML compatible browsers. The page updates every 3 seconds with a live feed from a Davis Vantage Pro 2 on the roof of 1-19 Torrington Place, just off Tottenham Court Road in London. For those with the new iPad we have a […]
Continue reading »The majority of city timelapse movies we have featured are captured from a fixed point. Of course if you are on board a ship and heading into one of the most vibrant cityscapes in the world you can go one step further: Arriving to NY (Enhanced) from H. Caesar on Vimeo. The movie was created […]
Continue reading »The latest in the digital urban tutorial series is available as a downloadable .PDF, it looks at exploring applications for physics engines in urban modelling, the first step of which is a series of techniques to introduce gravity and mass to urban models. We produced a tutorial back in 2009 using ‘Reactor’, Autodesk no longer use this […]
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