MIND THE GAPUsing CityEngine’s hidden powers

What’s coming up?

• Introductions•The Challenge•What is the Gap?•The Problem•The Solution•The Future

(and Procedural Sheep)

An Introduction

Elliot HartleyDirector & Planner

Garsdale Design Limitedarchitecture - planning - heritage - urban design - 3D visualisation

The ChallengeNot so smart huh?

The Challenge

• INTERNET OF THINGS• ASSET/PROPERTY

MANAGEMENT• ENTERTAINMENT• SMART CITIES• CONVERGENCE

What is the Gap?

What is the Gap?

• The gap is the thing we need to fill to complete a project.

• It’s a problem• It can be destructive

• It can be devastating when related to expectations

• It’s costly• It’s ultimately a challenge

The ProblemDATA DATA DATA DATA DATADATA DATA DATA DATA DATADATA DATA DATA DATA DATADATA DATA DATA DATA DATA

The problem

• Cynics?• Data

• Purchasing of data• Licensing of data

• Workflows

CityEngineAnalysis

Reports

Sketch

Submit ApprovalFeedback

GIS

£

SketchUP

AutoCADPen & Paper

ArcGIS QGIS

Visualise

The SolutionPeople, Data, GIS, Geodesign, Esri CityEngine

Esri CityEngine

• Integrates well with other tools and workflows

• Procedural Modeller• Content Aggregator• Inside and outside the Esri

Platform

Modelling the “What if?”

Procedural Sheep?

Procedural Sheep - Visualised

Procedural Sheep – Line of Sight

Urban Renewal in Iraq

Casterton, Cumbria

• OS MasterMap with Height Attribution (alpha)

• DEM• Satellite imagery• National Tree Map

Sedbergh, Cumbria

• OS Opendata (river, road)• National Tree Map • Aerial Imagery• DEM• CyberCity3D Building data

City of Cardiff

• Cardiff Model from our partners at CyberCit3D

• Assembled a scene in less than an hour

• Ready for analysis in ArcGIS Desktop

ArcGISPro

City Of Redding

Miami Downtown Development Authority

City Planning Agency of Zurich

Geodesign - Philadelphia University

VISUALISATION

MIAMI BEACH

L.A. FINANCIAL DISTRICT

FAVELA

Building Volumes

Building Facades and Textures

• Scattering Regions on Facades

Roofs and Asset Distribution

• Scattering of Static 3D Assets

Cables and Clotheslines

• Computing Cable Geometries

Vegetation

Un-textured

FAVELA – Textured and rendered

The Future?More of this…

The Future – Is Virtual & Augmented

The Future – Is Streaming & in the Cloud

The Future – Is not just cities

The Future – Is Convergence

Conclusion

One day while the Wizard was mixing and stirring a little of this and a bit of that,he saw something strange in the bottom of his pot.“What good-looking stuff I have made!” he exclaimed.“I will make some more right away.”

THE GREAT BLUENESS and OTHER PREDICAMENTS – Arnold Lobel

Thank You@elliothartleyelliot.hartley@garsdaledesign.co.ukwww.garsdaledesign.co.uk

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