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• Smithee wrote a new blog post: London Twitter Cloud   16 hours, 45 minutes ago
  

  Regular readers will know we have been logging data in 12 cities via our Tweet-o-Meter, its still early days but the results for a weekend in London are intriguing.The data covers a weekend period from Friday evening to Monday morning containing 380,000 individual tweets. Within these 60,000 were geo-referenced, tweeted by 5,500 individual users.In terms

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Image Stacking: 8400 Images – Day and Night in the City   3 days, 17 hours ago
  

  Using our recent tutorial on image stacking it is possible to stack images from both day and night to create a single image of the city skyline over time. The photograph below consists of 8400 images taken using a Go Pro HD with one image every 5 seconds. The streak of light to the left

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Carling Cup Final Tweet-o-Meter is Live   1 week, 4 days ago
  

  The Tweet-o-Meter developed here at CASA is now live for the Cup Final Weekend, making it, in the words of Carling, the First Digital Cup final.The Tweet-O-Meter measures the volume of tweets about the Carling Cup Final and shows who’s tweeting hardest; fans in Birmingham, Manchester or London! As Carling states – it’s

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Composite Cityscape: New York   1 week, 4 days ago
  

  Darren is a freelance designer/artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, his cityscape composite of New York below has been created as part of a showreel in his bid to gain some freelance visual effects work in the world of fantasy/sci-fi television:Its nice to feature such projects sometimes rather than the high-end visualisations from established studios.See

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: German and UK Truck Simulator   1 week, 6 days ago
  

  We can’t quite remember our search terms on game engines this morning but we stumbled upon a game entitled ‘German Truck Simulator’. The game allows you to drive across a realistic depiction of Germany, visit its cities, choose from over sixty kinds of cargo, and deliver them. The game progresses by growing

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Tutorial: Photoshop Image Stacking for Day Trails   2 weeks, 1 day ago
  

  Creating star trails is a well known technique in Astrophotography and the same technique can be used to create trails of activity during the day. The results are both unique and potentially useful to identify heavily used routes or flows in urban areas.You will need:1 x Timelapse System, you can use a simple webcam as

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Bonsai City / Typology A,B,C   2 weeks, 1 day ago
  

  The movie below is featured in a forthcoming exhibition about urban visions in Stuttgart at the Kunstbezirk:Bonsai City / Typology A,B,C from Michael Fragstein on Vimeo.The ideology and animation was carried out by Michael Fragstein, produced by Büro Achter April, music and sound by Marc Fragstein. The exhibition runs from 12th of

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Relief: Physical 3D Interactive Maps: A Step Towards the X-Men GI   2 weeks, 4 days ago
  

  Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models like geographical terrain in an intuitive manner.

  The tabletop surface is actuated by an array of 120 motorized pins, which are controlled with

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Satellite Car Chase: Google Maps Animation   2 weeks, 5 days ago
  

  Made originally for a longer move entitled Omar Hot Pursuit S.E.A.R.C.H. the producers have now made the Google Maps satellite car chase section into its own clip and its great:

  Satellite Car Chase from Honest Directors on Vimeo.
  The movie was made and directed by http://stayhonest.com/

• Smithee wrote a new blog post: Architectural Cinematography – Rooftops: Paris   2 weeks, 6 days ago
  

  The movie below entitled ‘Rooftops’ was created as a tribute to Georges Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891), who was behind the beautiful architecture of Paris. Taken by Mister K Cartoon with a Canon ixus 200is/Canon sd 980 using Colorista, Magic Bullet Looks, After Effects & Movie Maker for post production it portays the style and