Google Earth Modelling

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Jason Mill of pivnice emailed me about his new project ZNO. He creates 3d models to plug into Google Earth. A couple I tried of the Burj al arab and world projects in Dubai are really fantastic work, so go have a look. If he wants an idea for a Finnish building to model how about Stephen Holl’s Kiasma in Helsinki? A couple of other things for thought, Sketch up was just bought by Google, and I wonder how Jason’s projects might integrate with projects like fab lab. I mean the ability to make site models for buildings and institutions to order around the world. The computer model could be fed to fablab to build a scale model in whatever material with a commission for the model visualiser. There may not be a huge need for this but certainly a specialised one.

2 Comments

  1. Posted March 16, 2006 at 1:17 am | Permalink

    If someone can get us some plans/elevations for Stephen Holl’s Kiasma we’ll throw something together.

  2. Posted March 21, 2006 at 8:22 pm | Permalink

    The possibility of combining Sketchup and Googlemaps is very attractive. Perhaps Google will release it as an open source beta as they usually do? That would be great!

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