Archivideo
(public site in French only)- Their in-house proprietary software is called FastBuilder. It does "automatic modeling of complex territories from heterogeneous spatial data". They have been developing FastBuilder for more than 7 years. It is especially designed to generate 3D models automatically from IGN data (the French National Geographic Institute).
- The models can be viewer in a webpage using Shockwave, or as a stand-alone application (built on OSG/Qt).
- Their showcase models are Paris and Rennes, as describe on the Virtual France page
- Typical fields of use inlude 'landscape, town planning, architecture, infrastructure'
- Their partners are entirely French.
- There is a private site in English with downloadable applications demonstrating
their city content.
http://demo.archivideo.com user=vtp pwd=vtp
- Services available to municipalities for "creating, managing and using digital 3D city models"
- Services include 3D laser scanning (mobile mapping), organization of aerial photos, processing of roofscapes, façades and street plan, underground installations and tunnels, structural engineering and excavation projects
- They use a suite of in-house software (CityGRID Modeler, Manager, Planner, Explorer, Scanner, Ortho) which interoperates with ESRI products for a GIS connection
- CityGRID Explorer is the VRML-based interactive 3D module (not freely
distributed)
- Builds "PC-based high-resolution urban simulation VR models for a wide variety of architecture and planning applications" with their own proprietary run-time, SimView
- They have done a number of projects in the state of Michigan, USA, where they are located
- Offers a rapid city modelling service, at a typical cost of $150k per km2
- "A full spectrum of core capabilities and custom solutions for urban
infrastructure, tourism and travel, real estate, security and defense, 3D
yellow pages, entertainment, media and advertising applications"
- In addition to processing an analysis of aerial photos, they list examples of 8 German cities they have modelled
- Detailed DTM, and hand-textured buildings with multiple LODs
- They use their own advanced photogrammetry software tridicon which includes extraction of 3D buildings
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- One of the very first companies to focus on 3D urban modelling in the 1990s, they have helped coordinate the development of many "virtual cities" in 3D Studio MAX and VRML
- Most of them use a single very low resolution ground texture combined with simple extruded building outlines for a small number of downtown buildings
- Cities include: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, London, New Orleans, New York, Portland, San Diego, Sydney, Tokyo, Vancouver
- Partnered with 3D Geo, they use 3D Geo's LandXplorer software suite to provide city-modelling services, and to deliver solutions based on those models
- They are 'the recognized system integration partner for LandXplorer products.'
- Examples of cities they have modelled in Germany (Berlin, Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig) and Akron, Ohio in the USA, a highway in Italy, and several other urban planning and transportation projects
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