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The Making of the CASA Oculus Rift Urban Roller Coaster

Posted on Tuesday 26 August 2014 by Andy

Earlier this year CASA was invited to create a virtual reality exhibit for the Walking on Water exhibition, partnered with Grand Designs Live at London’s…

3D Max, 3D Modelling, 3DMax, Architectural Visualisation, oculus rift, SketchUp, Unity

UCL Live Campus Augmented Reality App – Created by Masters Students at CASA

Posted on Thursday 20 June 2013 by Andy

UCLive is an Augmented Reality Map of UCL developed by students on the Masters in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at CASA. Featuring live data, the augmented reality android app works by simply pointing your mobile device at any of the UCL maps across campus. Running in Unity and mixing a number of GIS and…

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3D Modelling, Agent Based Modelling, Android, augmented reality, CASA, Game Engines, GIS, MRes, SketchUp, UCL Map, Unity

UCL Quad – Procedural City and Lumion

Posted on Wednesday 12 June 2013 by Andy

The Quadrangle at University College London was designed by William Wilkins and constructed between 1827 and 1828. It is a natural building of urban research as its surroundings provide a mix of architectural styles. The 3D model of the quad was built using SketchUp with photos grabbed via a mobile phone – quick and…

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3D Modelling, CityEngine, Lumion, SketchUp, UCL, UCL Quad

How to export model from Google SketchUp to CryEngine 3 Tutorial HD (PlayUp Tools)

Posted on Friday 8 June 2012 by Andy Hudson-Smith

The clip below details how to go from SketchUp to CryEngine 3 using PlayUp tools – a quick and easy route direct into the game engine:

http://www.playuptools.com/ – playup toolshttp://sketchup.google.com/ – google sketchup

Thanks go…

CryEngine 3, playtools, SketchUp

ESRI CityEngine, Lumion, and SketchUp – The Ultimate City Toolkit?

Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2012 by Andy Hudson-Smith

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at ESRI’s CityEngine and how it can be used to create rapid urban scenes. As we noted it moves GIS visualisation a step forward while at the same time bringing procedural city modelling into the ma…

3DMax, CASA, CASA MRes, city visualization, CityEngine, esri, Lumion, MRes ASAV, SketchUp, Urban Data

SketchUp 8: Full Building Maker Integration

Posted on Wednesday 5 January 2011 by Andy Hudson-Smith

We have just fallen in love with Google SketchUp all over again, we are slightly late to the table on this one but Google Building Maker is now fully integrated into SketchUp 8. It has the genius of Canoma with the addition of all the editing…

Canoma, Google Building Maker, SketchUp