The iPad Video Wall

I am happy to report that the iPad Video wall has grown up from a prototype to a fully fledged finished project. If you have been following the blog then you would have saw the prototype video of the wall’s proof of concept and watched a single movie playing over all 8 iPads. Well I’ve […]

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Datascape – New 3D Dataviz tool from Daden

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…

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Getting Started with Simulations in 3D Max – Greeble and MassFX

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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2 Fully Funded PhD Studentships at CASA: Smart Cities / Smart Urban

We are pleased to announce 2 fully funded PhD studentships at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. Full details below, its a unique opportunity to carry out new cutting edge research in the field of smart cities: PhD 1 – CASA and The Greater London Authority Funding Type: Impact Award Project Title: PhD Studentship: […]

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iCloud: My Thoughts

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is underway and with that comes Steve Jobs famous keynote address and Apple’s lastest tech.  This year saw Jobs announce iOS 5, MacOS Lion, but more importantly Apple’s MobileMe replacement, iCloud. iCloud is Apple’s offering into the cloud computing infrastructure that Google and Amazon have dominated over the past few years.  […]

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London Twitter Map

We have been working hard here at CASA lately, building tools to collect, analyse and visualise different data sets from all over the web. One piece of software that has proven quite popular over the past few months is our internal Twitter Collector. The collector mines Twitter for tweets inside a geographical radius either with […]

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