Happy New Year everyone! After a successful break I came back to the office bursting with ideas for new CityEngine models and here is one I can share with you. It successfully combines a small but neat forestry rule file, allowing me to adjust tree height based on old and new growth in varying proportions (20% old growth, 80% new growth). I’ve used a road rule file from a middle eastern project. I’ve then downloaded OS OpenData which includes terrain, street network and vectormap data (https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html).
As you can see the model is coming along, what I really like is drawing freehand a road network that just magically appears on my terrain all textured up.
The terrain colouring isn’t perfect I know, but it will have to do for now until I can get some satellite imagery. I can see a real use for CityEngine beyond city visualisations, perhaps I was on to something with this previous post .
I think I may add something about this model to my presentation at the GeoDesign Summit, at the end of this month.
Will you be making your GeoDesign presentation available for those who can’t make it to the conference?
Hi and thanks for reading my blog! Hopefully I should be make some of the presentation materials available, if it’s like last year the proceedings are videoed and place on line http://video.esri.com/series/66/2012-GeoDesign-summit.
Is there something you’re interested in? Perhaps I could do a blog post on a particular area for you?
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