Visualising Fast Flows

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Michael Batty
Aaron Koblin has produced some fantastic animations of airline flows reminiscent of some of Joan Serras’ work on our SIMULACRA blog. Check out Aaron’s flow stuff. He uses Google Maps to zoom in and out. Also dig into his web site for very innovative animations of fast flows and fluxes.
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Procedures to Generate Fractal Cityscapes

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Michael Batty
For a decade or more, computer scientists have used procedural logics (grammars) to generate urban morphologies. The paper by Li and Miller uses such recursive procedures similar to those we used a while ago to generate fractal cityscapes. Watch their movie. We need to explore this CS stuff more.
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Cellular Urban Regeneration

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Michael Batty
Most of urban dynamics involve activities that are in situ already. Here we present a populist foray into simulating the impact of regeneration on Stratford (the site of the Olympics Games) in east London using our Tyndall LUTI model. Read the paper.
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Movements from Point Data

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Michael Batty
Constructing flows from where people are located at different points in time is usually hard and often impossible for large populations. You can only do it for individuals if you know the actual locations and order visited: posted on vimeo, and tweeted.
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Cities as Biologies

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Michael Batty
The analogy between the city and the human body goes back to Leonardo. The heart of the city, said Victor Gruen, pumps its people as flows of traffic to keep it energized as an exchange mechanism. Great visualization of the pulsing of the city from the SubMap Group in Budapest. Look at Lisbon’s blood vessels too.
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