Landscape Visualization

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The Visual Effects and Motion Graphics' best of for their assessment called "Auckland 2100".

The Value Lab was donated by "Baugarten Stiftung". The Value Lab is a research and teaching space with five connected touchscreens, a high-res projector and a videoconferencing system. This video shows first impressions from the Value Lab. ETH would like to thank "Baugarten Stiftung" for making this project possible.

In 1503 Albrecht Dürer painted the renowed work of art Large Piece of Turf using a mixed technique of pen drawing and watercolor. Inside the Large Piece of Turf is a 3D animation modelled and created by Lenné3D, and Jan Walter Schliep.This is not an attempt of a digital 'copy' of the celebrated artwork of Dürer, but an analytical model that depicts the distribution of the formative plant species in the master craftsman's painting. Therefore, only identifiable plants and plant positions are displayed. The basis of the model is formed by a quasi georeferenced planting plan. The digital plants are not visualised as Dürer's painting but generated with real photo textures and realistic shades, rendered with Cinema4D.

The video animation “Biomass in Future Landscapes” shows both fly-through and walk-troughs and a time travel. New landscape scenery patterns and time and again views arise from implementation of linear structures such as alley-cropping systems.
The video is based on a virtual 3D model derived from geodata such as a digital elevation model and land use maps and field patterns, vegetation relevés, and descriptions of cropping practices. 3D plants create a stunning vegetation cover. Finally, a virtual camera flies and walks though the interactive 3D landscape model and the animation is rendered. The video was presented first at the international conference Biomass in Future Landscape, Berlin, March 31st - April 1st 2009 (biomass-in-future-landscapes.de)