{"id":1229,"date":"2013-10-07T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-10-07T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:02:04","slug":"modelling-an-historic-arab-city-centre-in-3d-using-cityengine-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Modelling an Historic Arab City Centre in 3D using CityEngine \u2013 Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I keep coming back to this rule file tweaking various elements, this time I&#8217;ve added wind towers to it. \u00a0 Wind towers aren&#8217;t a feature of every old Arabic urban area (that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve included a switch to turn them on and off), but it felt wrong not to include them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still room for improvement, every so often I get features hanging in mid-air, probably because of some of the odd shapes. \u00a0 The images below have are just taken straight from a webscene (no other rendering or enhancements). \u00a0 This time the shapes the buildings are built on are real world plots from a job we&#8217;re working on (believe it or not this is work here for a real planning job!).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1231\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1231\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1231\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1231\" alt=\"ce_arabic_white_project6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project6.jpg?resize=614%2C383\" width=\"614\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project6.jpg?resize=1024%2C639&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project6.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project6.jpg?w=1432&amp;ssl=1 1432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some people may recognise my favourite water tower and TV mast from previous models&#8230; there are too many mosques here as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1232\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1232\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1232\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1232\" alt=\"ce_arabic_white_project5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project5.jpg?resize=614%2C395\" width=\"614\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project5.jpg?resize=1024%2C658&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project5.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project5.jpg?w=1444&amp;ssl=1 1444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project5.jpg?w=1392 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I want to next work on the utility networks, these poles are far to neat&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1230\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1230\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1230\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1230\" alt=\"ce_arabic_white_project7\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project7.jpg?resize=614%2C410\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project7.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project7.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ce_arabic_white_project7.jpg?w=1434&amp;ssl=1 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can see my parking garage there&#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I keep coming back to this rule file tweaking various elements, this time I&#8217;ve added wind towers to it. \u00a0 Wind towers aren&#8217;t a feature of every old Arabic urban area (that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve included a switch to turn them on and off), but it felt wrong not to include them&#8230; There&#8217;s still room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,226,116,145,37,25,54,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-3d","category-arabic","category-city-creation","category-cityengine","category-heritage","category-planning","category-tips","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","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=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}