The Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen is currently seeking a landscape and visualisation modeller and a spatial planner. For further information, please refer to
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/jobs/
Author: Olaf Schroth
Sketchup 7 is out now
According to Google, the new publisher of Sketchup, version 7 is out now (Source: Official Google Blog). Among the various new features, the possiblity to assign dynamic behaviour and attributes (only the Pro version) seems particularly interesting to me. In consequence, the construction of semantic models with Sketchup is getting another step closer.
Upcoming conferences: CORP, Imagina
REAL CORP 2009
As Manfred Schrenk already had announced at the end of this year’s REAL CORP, the 14th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, won’t take place in Vienna but in the Design Centre Sitges, Spain. The Call for Papers is open now and details are available at http://www.corp.at/
IMAGINA
The Imagina is an event, focussing on the 3D visualization community in industry, architecture, media and entertainment. This year’s imagina could become interesting for researchers in urban and landscape planning as well because it focuses on the use of 3D in town and country planning. Among the speakers are officials from cities like Manchester, using 3D visualization already, and Prof. Dr. Thomas Kolbe, who will present on CityGML.
More information is available at http://www.imagina.mc/
Autodesk buys 3D Geo (LandXplorer)
In August Autodesk already published a press release, announcing that they buy the German company 3D Geo, a spin-off of the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam that became well-known for their LandXplorer software. LandXplorer is basically an authoring system for 3D geodata that allows to construct, analyze, store and manage 3D city models for various export formats (GeoBrowser, VirtualReality, GameEngines, WebApplications). Among other features, LandXplorer is one of the first software packages to support CityGML. The full text is available at http://www.3dgeo.de/news.aspx?Article=143
Autodesk said that they will keep the office in Potsdam as future development center in Europe and that they will further develop LandXplorer. This might even open a chance that LandXplorer will become a meta-platform to link single Building Information Models on a larger scale, i.e., as part of a semantic 3D city model.
VNS 3
The new VNS version 3 is out now. Details on the upgrade are on: http://3dnature.com/vns3.html