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

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

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.

Google Building Maker

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

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.

Finally - Google Street View on a College Campus!

posted on Thu, 2009-08-20 14:36 , 575 reads, 3 comments

Google Street View gives us an unprecedented ability to understand what spaces feel like on the ground (while providing the context of a map). Until now, college campuses have appeared as large holes in the Street View data. Over the past few months, Google bikes have been spotted traversing a number of college campus, and just this week, Google finally added their first campus to Street View: San Diego State University (SDSU).

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Factbook eXplorer

posted on Thu, 2009-07-09 08:52 , 300 reads, 1 comment

Very interactive - Create graphs and stories over time with Census data in a graphically sophisticated and user-friendly/intuative platform. The data sets (indicators) seem to be limited for now, but the idea is strong.

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