Photosynth as a free building-scale 3D scanner?
Following yesterday’s post about urban models generated from point clouds, I noticed this post on Digital Urban about the possibility of using Microsoft’s Photosynth as a way of capturing these point clouds (in this camporting those clouds as full 3D...Real Architecture in Virtual Environments: How to Profit from Virtual Environments – Second Life Event
This Second Life event should be a pretty interesting, held October 2nd at 12 PM PDT, 21:00 PM CEDT, at this slurl. It will be moderated by Roy Philbin from Second Interest, and features the following panel: Kirsten Kiser, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of arcspace.com...Toward the Sentient City, Situated Technologies, Conflux Festival and more
I was just checking in on Twitter (I’m @ARCHNetwork, btw) – and saw that I missed a tweet from NPIRL’s Bettina Tizzy posting a RT from @TishShute from UgoTrade about the exciting “Toward the Sentient City” pamphlet, published by Situated...Interactive-scale and fully up-to-date models of the whole world
My faith in ‘the convergence’ was re-affirmed by Cory Ondrejka’s recent commentary on this video in his excellent collapsing geography blog. It’s easy to forget, and often difficult to visualize, what these newly emerging (and converging)...Demo, Open House and Q&A on the OpenSim Architecture Islands grid
If you’re curious about how the OpenSim platform might be useful in your art, architecture or design related projects, we will be holding an informal open house this Wednesday, September 23rd at 9am PDT on the Architecture Islands grid. Here is the event’s...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20
Share and promote great architecture related metaverse projects: https://archvirtual.com/?p=1524 # The Architecture of OpenSim (machinima) https://archvirtual.com/?p=1535 # Discussing 3D Mesh Imports into Second Life at Metanomics Community Forum with Reed...Studio Wikitecture Meeting Tonight, September 17, at 6pm PDT (SLT)
The Studio Wikitecture and Treet TV communities will be gathering tonight in Second Life to discuss progress on their current Wikitecture project – the development of an urban ‘master plan’ for Treet Islands. They will be on hand to answer questions...
The Architecture of OpenSim (machinima)
Sims at a fraction of the cost? No prim size limits? Saving and restoring entire sims to and from my own hard drive? OpenSim is where its at, and its improving at a pretty impressive rate. With the likes of IBM, Intel, Microsoft and even Linden Lab itself making contributions toward strengthening OpenSim, it certainly seems to have a chance at making it to prime time if it hasn’t already. We’re now offering 6 sims at $150/month on the OpenSim Architecture Grid…
Architecture related destinations
I was recently grid-hopping in Second Life, several of the opensim grids, Blue Mars, and Multiverse, and saw so many incredible projects that I wish I had time to cover individually! Innovative work in this area exceeded my ‘event horizon’ long ago, and I...