New Deal: Berlin in 3D on Google Earth After the Bavarian State Library and participating publishers announced to cooperate with Google to digitize copyright-(free) books and make them available through Google book search it's now Germany's capital Berlin to make a 3D model available to the global audience on Google Earth.

For the instance it can be seen via this link (requires Google Earth) or as a wmv video (Windows Media Player).

From Berlin 3D:

'The model consists of some 44,000 buildings in the centre of Berlin shown in rudimentary detail (level of detail - LOD - 1). Of these, about 500 particularly significant buildings have been assigned photos of their respective façades.'

From Google Earth Blog:

'Buildings that are further away automatically disappear (so they don't use too much memory, and so you see more detail when you are closer to the buildings).'

As processor, imaging and data communication technologies become more powerful and cost-effective over time including emerging cinematic experiences and immersive technologies to create a compelling 3D model becomes more exciting.

• Web Vision of a World in 3D

Labels: 3D, markets, visualization

  ¶ 'New Deal: Berlin in 3D on Google Earth' posted by eA : 7:40 PM