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New wind turbine design could provide greater efficiency and much smaller footprint

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-01-26 10:42 , 1224 reads, 0 comments

http://cleantechnica.com/2010/01/26/wind-turbines-...

A new wind turbine design out of Wilbraham, MA promises to provide more durability, better efficiency and (importantly for planning purposes) much reduced spacing requirements.

Have a look at the video below. In addition to being an impressive piece of engineering, I think the video itself is an excellent example of selling a design concept using 3D computer models.

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Google Earth now has detailed facades from Street View (select cities only)

By Ken Goulding posted on Fri, 2009-11-20 16:12 , 344 reads, 1 comment

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/11/buildin...

Google has used imagery from Street View to add high-res facades to buildings in five California cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Franciso, Berkeley and Stockton. This kind of facade mapping works best for solid street walls without much articulation. The mapping is not always perfect, but the results are still impressive (and provide a good sense of the quality of the urban fabric).

You can browse these cities in Google Earth or check out the video below:

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Google Building Maker

By Ken Goulding posted on Thu, 2009-10-15 17:17 , 195 reads, 0 comments

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html

An impressive new web tool from Google lets you map oblique photos to simple geometries. The results are fairly convincing from afar and would make great context buildings for our 3D models - especially when used in Google Earth.

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Quick and Dirty Viewshed Visualization

By Ken Goulding posted on Fri, 2009-06-26 12:26 , 397 reads, 0 comments

Developers place a premium on dwelling units with “ocean views” and other desirable views. This technique offers us a means of quickly visualizing which buildings will have desirable views. The trick is to place lights in a grid and observe how these strike buildings in the model.

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Digital Urban

By Ken Goulding posted on Fri, 2009-06-26 11:36 , 168 reads, 0 comments

http://www.digitalurban.blogspot.com/

This is an excellent blog if you want to follow digital technologies as they relate to urban planning. Topics covered include mapping, 3D modelling, architectural visualization etc.

From the about page:

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