{"id":1120,"date":"2013-07-17T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T10:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2013-07-17T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:07:18","slug":"less-is-more-modelling-a-historic-arab-city-centre-in-3d-using-cityengine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Less is more? Modelling an Historic Arab City Centre in 3D using CityEngine"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: I’ve added more images at the bottom of the page…<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I can’t really share with you everything about a project but I can share some of the screenshots. \u00a0This is an urban renewal project we’re doing in Iraq. \u00a0One of the issues with 3D is how to visualise proposals for clarity. \u00a0 My view is that “less is more”, try and make something photorealistic and people’s expectations of accuracy go through the roof, make the models more\u00a0diagrammatic\u00a0and you have the “it’s just a diagram” as an excuse for errors!<\/p>\n

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We’re providing a backdrop to some proposals for this project and it needs to look good but not the centre of attention. \u00a0I’ve tried minimal textures and solid colours but somehow white looks a lot better. \u00a0 Working pre-existing rule files to this project’s specifications has been interesting it needs detail and yet I’ve chosen to make switch to make it all white.<\/p>\n

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One other trick I’ve used with this project is to provide a switch to demolish the central core of the city (as an option) and then we can switch on the new proposals. \u00a0 In SketchUp this would have been very awkward to do but here once the rule is written\u00a0adaptations\u00a0can be made quickly and the results instantly displayed.<\/p>\n

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One last thing I’d like to point out is that putting your model into the CityEngine web viewer is so easy and makes it look so good that we actually take screenshots from it to put in our reports!<\/p>\n

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Swiping between scenarios is very useful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Once a rule file is created scenarios for proposals and developments can be quickly implemented.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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UPDATE: I’ve added more images at the bottom of the page… So I can’t really share with you everything about a project but I can share some of the screenshots. \u00a0This is an urban renewal project we’re doing in Iraq. \u00a0One of the issues with 3D is how to visualise proposals for clarity. \u00a0 My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,116,145,37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-3d","7":"category-city-creation","8":"category-cityengine","9":"category-heritage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}