Within the City Project UCL is most interested
in the rendering, modelling and interaction
issues. We are continuing work on simulations of crowded spaces and large model rendering for urban contexts.
Current Demonstrator Work
We
have been taking care of the 3D rendereding
(Ana's view) within the demonstrator. This
is both for the desktop and immersive
case. In both cases, we are investigating
the use of PDAs as control devices, rather
than on-screen or within-world displays,
which can be rather clumsy. The following
photographs are of a recent demonstration of
the City project at an Equator plenary
meeting.
We had a week long workshop here at UCL in
July looking specifically at interfaces for
the ReaCTor. The following snapshots
illustrate some of the results.
Research Work
Within the current demonstrator
The current City demo does not stress the
research issues in large-scale modelling or
rendering, but we have started preparing for
the next phase of roll-out to the urban
scale. Nick (Sheep) Dalton's recent talk on
large-scale modelling
outlines some of the problems of modelling
large spaces amongst several parties, or
when multiple versions are required.
Anthony Steed's talk on urban
modelling processes shows some of the
ways of creating a base model from which to
work. We are working with Geomatics and CASA
at UCL in generating the next versions of
these models and processes.