LVIZ wishes you a Happy New Year !

What will 2009 bring? Plans for the LVIZ blog include a detailed review of the new VNS3 and an overview of landscape visualization labs at universities around the world. Furthermore, the LVIZ blog community will formulate a mission statement, further develop its design and provide download resources for landscape visualization.

See you in 2009!

Vue 7 by e-on software released

E-on software has released a new version of their landscape modelling and visualization software vue. According to the offical feature list a number of key methods and technologies have been improved significantly. Amongst the features are ecosystem models, volumetric clouds, tree generation, global ilumination, etc.

A look inside their gallery shows some very detailed and realistic scenes, e.g. the Picture of the Day, Wednesday, December 10, 2008.

Jungle by Maciek Sikora
"Jungle" by Maciek Sikora

I have made some tests with an earlier Version in 2004 and I have to say that it was a lot of fun to work with vue. The main problem was to integrate GIS data and to create realisitc plant distributions. I wonder if this has changed by now, because the visual quality which can be achieved is very impressive.

Low Carbon Cities

45th ISOCARP International Congress
Porto – Portugal, 18-22 October 2009

www.isocarp.org
“For our 2009 congress in Porto, we focus upon the environmental effects of man’s activities, in the context of the world’s expanding cities and city regions.
It is those cities and agglomerations that are undoubtedly the source of a large share of the greenhouse gas emissions that underlie climate change; at the same time, these are the places that are often the most vulnerable to its effects.
Time is short and if we are to avoid the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change, we must act and act quickly.
The challenge is to use (and reuse) our resources, including land, far more efficiently and, in particular, to move towards low carbon cities.”
(Chris Gossop – General Rapporteur)

AGIT 2009 Call for Papers out now

AGIT 2009 is a well established GIS conference in Salzburg with one track on visualization and cartographic communication. For more information, please refer to www.agit.at