Re: [flasher] RE: how was this 3d map made?

[Flash Gordon]

I'd bet my money that it was Illustrator...

One of our web gurus where I work does similar work - he takes photographs

into Illustrator and traces/vectorizes them and they look pretty neat:

http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AH/


So, I'd have to say illustrator, 'cause I've seen it done...


-Flash Gordon (Gordon's alive!)


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From: "Michael Penney" <

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To: "flasher from chinwag" <

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Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:52 PM

Subject: [flasher] RE: how was this 3d map made?



> I'd say it was done in a 3d ware, just because of the sloppiness (would an

> artist actually _draw_ buildings off center on their lots and overlapping

> sidewalks in a tech illustration?, but a quickly (or imexpertly) done 3d

> model may well have things off centered as in your picture).

>

> Some possibilities

> Vecta3d (hate it) vecta3d.com

> Illustrate (very nice if you have 3DStudio) davidgould.com

> or

> Swift3d (swift3d.com), we have a tutorial here:

> http://www.bigtimeweb.com/tutora/Swift3d/index.html

> or now Poser with the new Pro Pack (curiouslabs.com)

> that exports to swf would all be possibilities.

>

> Simple buildings can be done using primitives in Swift or Poser, though

for

> more detailed buildings you would probably want a more advanced modeling

> ware like 3dstudio. Swift, Vecta, and Poser can import 3ds files, and just

> about any 3d software can create those nowadays.

>

> For more exact layouts, including accurate lat/lon or UTM coordinates for

> the buildings, I would use World Construction Set with DEMs (USGS Digital

> Elevation Models) of the terrain and autocad (DXF, etc) models of the

> buildings. You can even import exact GIS coordinates from ArcView or

> IDRISI32 into WCS, though it would be more difficult to get the vector

> shaded look of your example with this method-WCS excells at photorealistic

> renders, including trees, rivers, etc. rather than flat shaded

> representations. www.3dnature.com

>

> Good luck (and let me know if you need any 3d modeling on your proj;-).

>

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>

> > > From: Helen Triolo

> > > Reply To: flasher

> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:19 PM

> > > To: flasher from chinwag

> > > Subject: [flasher] how was this 3d map made?

> > >

> > > Hi all.  I got a very cool-looking (except for all the ugly ads) map

in

> > > the mail the other day and wondered if anyone can clue me on how it

> > > might have been made. I scanned in a piece and stuck it up at

> > > http://i-technica.com/streetmap.html . Aerial photos plus 3d software,

> > > I'd guess, but what 3d software?  It looks like a lifetime of work to

me

> > > (!) but it would be so great to do something like this for a map

project

> > > I'm currently working on...

> > >

> > > Thanks,

> > > Helen

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> > > developer resources: http://i-technica.com/whitestuff

> > >

> > >

> > >

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