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Real-time Visualization versus Animation For urban simulation, the ESC typically uses "real-time" 3D visualization rather than rendered animations. What is the difference and why do we favor "real-time"? |
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Dynamic Viewshed Analysis This animation demonstrated the concept of "Seeing is Perceiving". As an imaginary person walks around the site, what he sees of the cathedral is illuminated. What he perceieves is the sum of all of these glimpses. View movie with: QuickTime™ or Windows Media Player™ |
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Fly-Through Manhattan Lower Manhattan West Side |
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Shadow Analysis The ESC often uses its 3D models for Environmental Impact Assessments. Accurate shadow analysis is an ESC speciality. View movie with: QuickTime™ or Windows Media Player™ |
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Sample CAD Files The ESC's 3D model of Lower Manhattan is the "official" model used by the City of New York and many of the World Trade Center proposals. |
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Documents |
acrobat reader required. |
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Michael Kwartler explores the relationship between public involvement and digital information technology. |
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A discussion of the concept of "Just-in time" Planning™. |
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This guide provides a starter kit for a community member, city official, planner, or design professional to identify currently available planning tools and to assess their applicability and appropriateness to specific projects or issues. View Document... |
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The ESC has played a critical role in securing the Cathedral's development rights, which will increase its endowment and enable the Cathedral to "maintain, preserve and restore the cathedral building and other historic buildings." View Document... Link to project info... |
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This article describes how virtual reality models are being used for urban simulation by various firms, including the ESC. |
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Modernizing Democracy:
Regulating the Good You Can't Think Of
Placemaking: Tools for Community Action
Shaping Cities, Pixels to Bricks, With 3D Models