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Fast Generation of 3D City Models

Posted by timothy on from the build-a-better-locale dept.

FleaPlus writes "New Scientist and UC Berkeley News report on research by Avideh Zakhor and Christian Früh on rapidly and automatically generating photo-realistic 3D models (coral cache) of city environments. This is reminiscent of research mentioned here in March, although the approach is rather different. Applications for areas like urban planning, entertainment, emergency response, and the military are discussed. Zakhor's group is also working on 4D systems, to allow for recording of events over time as moving 3D models."

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  1. Flight Simulator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This would be awesome for flight sims. If you want to view this in this in Linux here is a viewer.

  2. torrent of the 100MB VRML model: Berkeley.zip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://blackbox02.cs.washington.edu:11223/Berkeley .zip.torrent

  3. some links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000960042343/

    this also provides some more info on this

    http://meinherz.net/