Fast Generation of 3D City Models

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 7, 2005 @06:07AM 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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Re:Military, eh? by andreyw · 2005-05-07 09:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/f rontpage/4503061.stm

Why the fuck did we go to war, causing more instability in the region, countless civilian and military deaths, destruction of property and countless archaelogical sites and finds, again??