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Tuesday, September 2. 2008
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Washington DC circa 1814...Digitally Rendered
The Washington Post published an article about work completed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's (UMBC) Imaging Research Center which shows a fantastic rendering of the landscape as the city would have appeared circa 1814. Central to the work is a depiction of the unfinished Capitol building as it stand in juxtaposition to other geographic features at that time. The work by UMBC is based on topographic maps and generalized paintings from the era to create a psuedo-realistic 3D model. Watch the video created by UMBC; it's six minutes long but worth it.
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Friday, August 22. 2008
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Update: Photosynth Open to All
Update: Apparently there was so much demand the site was down much of the morning and afternoon. It was back to partial operation late in the afternoon on Thursday. Bottom line: lots of interest.
- Seattle PI Blog
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Microsoft's Web service for stitching photos together to make 3D scenes is now available to anyone. Just upload the images and "synth" them. Users are granted 20 GB of space (more if your synths are "cool"). The Photosynth site offers the chance to learn about the technology, view synths and create your own.
- C|net
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Monday, August 11. 2008
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Autodesk Geospatial Acquires 3D Geo GmbH
The German company provides "software and services for geo-visualization: solutions for effectively creating, analyzing, managing, and distributing large-scale geo information" and is a "maker of intelligent 3D urban models software." Further, "The products of 3D Geo are made in accordance with international standards such as CityGML." The company is based in Potsdam, Germany and is privately held.
The interesting bit about the company found in the "about" part of the press release: 3D Geo GmbH, is a spin-off company of the Hasso Platter Institute. Hasso Platter? He co-founded SAP and I believe I saw him on stage at ESRI UC back when ESRI was implementing, then partnering with SAP. He funds the institute which focuses on IT; there is no tuition!
The company has two sites: 3D Geo and LandXplorer (a free CityGML viewer for models created with for fee LandXplorer Studio, there's a full suite including a server, developer platform, a product to put data in to Google Earth and another to support geotainment). I am surprised not to find 3D Geo in the list of OGC member companies.
This is a clear step that Autodesk is trying to fill in any gaps it has between BIM and 3D GIS. Autodesk gets a gold star for holding the announcement until after the ESRI User Conference. Autodesk is taking a very different route than Google and Autodesk here, focussing on standards-based tools for professionals for 3D modeling. Google and Microsoft seem to be going after the "amateurs" providing free tools to build up and share home made versions of a 3D world.
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Wednesday, August 6. 2008
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Penfield, NY Goes 3D with Skyline
I've not heard from Skyline for a while, so it was nice to see a "3D GIS for our town" article today. The implementation is from Albany-based IAGT (The Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology) and was done for free as a pilot. I met the IAGT folks at the NY GIS/SIG earlier this year. Also of note: the 3D data builds on some LiDAR from Pictometry.
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Tuesday, July 29. 2008
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Podcast: How to Read Microsoft's 3D Effort with trueSpace
Last week Microsoft announcedthat its recently acquired trueSpace 3D model creator is now free and models created with it can be uploaded as collections to Virtual Earth. What does that say about what Google, Microsoft and the geospatial community think about what tools and data are required for today's maps?
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Thursday, July 24. 2008
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Microsoft Make trueSpace Free, Ties it into Virtual Earth
This is the next phase after Microsoft acquired Caligari (apb post) and its trueSpace 3D toolkit this past February.
Chris Pendleton at the Virtual Earth, Evangelist's blog explains and provides an answer to "how to make money with 3D."
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