In the Google 3D Warehouse:
- Featured
Google Earth modeler, Arlinghaus, known as "Archimedes"
2007-present. Link
- Archimedes's
models (created by the author; the Collection in the Warehouse contains
a few extras submitted by others)
- Adjusted
Collections:
- University
of Michigan, Adjusted. Contains 41 models. In June of 2007,
higher resolution aerials were introduced. In these, there appeared to
be a datum shift from the previous lower resolution images. Thus,
models built on building footprints for the lower resolution files need
to be realigned to fit with the building footprints for the higher
resolution images. This collection represents such a set for the campus
of The University of Michigan. It also includes a few older models that
would not respond appropriately to re-alignment and subsequent upload
to the server (work continues on those). Download this entire set of
models to have "best possible" coverage of the entire campus.
- Ann
Arbor, Adjusted. Contains 3 models. In June of 2007,
higher resolution aerials were introduced. In these, there appeared to
be a datum shift from the previous lower resolution images. Thus,
models built on building footprints for the lower resolution files need
to be realigned to fit with the building footprints for the higher
resolution images. This collection represents such a set for the city
of Ann Arbor beyond The University of Michigan campus.
- Adjusted
Models, Ann Arbor. Contains 2 collections of models from
above. In June of 2007,
higher resolution aerials were introduced. In these, there appeared to
be a datum shift from the previous lower resolution images. Thus,
models built on building footprints for the lower resolution files need
to be realigned to fit with the building footprints for the higher
resolution images. This collection represents a set of adjusted
collections.
- Original Collections,
made prior to June 2007, using earlier aerials.
- University
of Michigan: Textured and Partially Textured Building Groups.
Contains 14 models. Sets of buildings: all
have textured rooftops and at least one building in each group is fully
textured (as a naming anchor for the set).
- University
of MIchigan: Textured. Contains 34 models. Contains buildings of The
University of MIchigan, Ann Arbor, that are fully textured.
- University
of MIchigan. Contains 41 models. All buildings of the
University of Michigan on campus maps appear here (about 300
buildings). Unless otherwise noted, all models were created by Sandra
Lach Arlinghaus. Special thanks (full citations appears in 3D Atlas of
Ann Arbor, http://www.imagenet.org/ ): 3D Laboratory in the Duderstadt
Center of The University of Michigan for their advice. Dr. Klaus-Peter
Beier, Director; Lars Schumann, Manager; Steffen Heise, 3D Lab. Thanks
for base GIS files: Donald T. Uchman, Drafting Intermediate Supervisor,
Space Information, The University of Michigan; Matthew Naud,
Environmental Coordinator, City of Ann Arbor; Wendy Rampson, City of
Ann Arbor; and Karen Hart. Citations for materials obtained from public
sites that were incorporated into files in this collection--as one
might include pertinent quotations (and cite sources) in a conventional
document, so too, pertinent model bits and sources are cited here: 1.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d9df666120fee38c7fb60589c24fde63&prevstart=12
2.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=a7b9f69d31356fbef96dfde99ac0e896
, primarily by "Surreal 3D" and "Google Guy." 3.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c29682940165845a7c81e315a70337ac&prevstart=0
4. http://www-vrl.umich.edu/VRML/Field2.JPG and
http://www-vrl.umich.edu/VRML/crowd.JPG 5.
http://bentley.umich.edu/bhl/exhibits/umosu/umsongs.htm
- Ann
Arbor. Contains 403 models. 3D models of buildings
in Ann Arbor. This collection includes textured buildings for 24 blocks
of the DDA, textured buildings for 27 single University of Michigan
buildings, textured buildings in partially textured groups for another
11 partially textured groups of the University of Michigan, files for
the remaining buildings of the DDA and the rest of Ann Arbor (not
textured but set against the terrain), and environmental files
involving the Allen Creek. Thus, the reader may use the collection as a
source of completed models and also as a source of models to complete.
To complete University of Michigan models, try obtaining photos for
individual buildings from: http://uuis.umich.edu/cic/buildingproject/ .
To complete others, try the Assessor's website on the City of Ann Arbor
site, http://www.a2gov.org/ . BE A VOLUNTEER PHOTOGRAPHER AND SEND IN
YOUR PHOTOS OF ANN ARBOR! For a more carefully partitioned file, see
"Ann Arbor, MI: Collections" There, textured files are separated from
non-textured ones. The models marked as "nonmapped" are untextured
buildings extruded from footprints contained in The University of
Michigan GIS database but not contained on the map on the university's
website, http://www.umich.edu/ Unless otherwise noted, models were
created by Sandra Lach Arlinghaus
(http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarhaus/ ). For complete references,
see the 3D Atlas of Ann Arbor, first edition, second edition, and third
edition, at
http://www.imagenet.org/
- Ann
Arbor, MI. Untextured Buildings Outside the DDA and UM.
Contains 2 models. A single .kmz file set
correctly against the terrain. Building height arbitrarily set at 2
stories. The buildings in this basic file are useful only as very
general backdrop when looking at the massing of buildings throughout
the urban area--especially in relation to terrain.
- Ann
Arbor, MI. DDA, Textured. Contains 13 models. Textured blocks of the
Downtown Development Authority, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Ann
Arbor, MI: DDA. Contains 52 models. Extruded building
footprints are set to the correct height. These simple structures
create a backdrop for viewing skylines and general urban form. They
offer a challenge to others to acquire photographic textures and make
the buildings more recognizable. They are a beginning. The single model
containing all buildings is to be used in Google Earth; it is correctly
set against the terrain. Smaller groupings of buildings are for use in
SketchUp and will need to be adjusted against terrain. The files
contain a reference to a coordinate system in their name. A file with
2N3E is a block of the DDA two blocks north of the intersection
centroid of Main and Huron Streets and 3 blocks to the east of the
location.
- Allen
Creek Floodplain. Contains 17 models. Blue region depicts
flooding of the Allen Creek floodplain to different topographic
elevations. The region lies on the west side of downtown Ann Arbor,
running from the Huron River, south to the University of Michigan golf
course and west to the edge of town. These models make sense only when
viewed in Google Earth with the terrain switch "on". They look best
when also loaded in Google Earth with buildings from the Ann Arbor
collection; two general files are enclosed here; there are others, with
textured buildings to fill in the gaps in the DDA and The University of
Michigan, in the "Ann Arbor, MI: Collections" file.
- Help
Model Ann Arbor, MI. Contains 2 collections of models from
various locations above. Help finish building
the 3D Ann Arbor. Take a look in the "untextured" collection: the basic
geometry is supplied there. Then, apply textures, submit your model to
sarhaus@umich.edu, and once complete, then it will be moved to the
"textured" collection! Watch Ann Arbor grow through YOUR efforts! There
are already many completed buildings...add to this collection which
already has served local municipal authorities in Planning, Emergency
Management, Environmental Applications, and Citizens Groups. The
modeling of the city is merely the beginning...applications of the
model are important!
- Archive
Archimedes: Blue Ribbons. Contains 45 models. Newer versions of
these models are present in other collections; these persist only here
and are therefore archived. The icon for this particular collection is
the Clements Library of the University of Michigan which archives
prized books and artifacts.
- Untextured
Models or Partially Textured Models, Ann Arbor, MI. Contains
3 collections of selected models. Use the geometry of
these models as a base for applying photographic textures (to come in
Picasa, or find your own on the web). Complete a partially completed
block or building! Then, submit the completed models and watch as this
collection shrinks in size and the virtual, 3D city of Ann Arbor
grows...all thanks to YOUR efforts!
- Textured
Models, Ann Arbor, MI. Contains 2 collections of selected
models. Models of Ann Arbor
that are "complete." No model, though, is really "complete." Land uses
change; buildings are torn down or rebuilt; businesses change
hands--consider updating an existing complete model and submit it. Or,
think you can make a better model? Go for it! The completed models are
partitioned into various child collections for convenience: the
partition is based on University of Michigan buildings, Downtown
Development Authority (DDA) buildings, and other buildings.
http://www.imagenet.org/
- Google
Earth: Benchmarking a Map of Walter Christaller.
Contains 18 models. Vertical benchmarks,
with height in proportion to rank of city in a hierarchy created by
Christaller, are used to align a map from 1941 (of unknown projection)
with the Google Earth sphere. Thus, environmental texture is introduced
into the original map. Based on an original article by Arlinghaus that
appeared in Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and
Mathematics, Vol. XVII, No. 2, December, 2006,
http://www.imagenet.org/. A direct link to that article is provided
here:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecopyrght/image/solstice/win06/Germany/index.html
Download the full .kmz of all benchmarks from the following link Link:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecopyrght/image/solstice/win06/Germany/Benchmarks.kmz
or upload those associated with blue (highest) and red (secondary)
levels of the hierarchy from the .skp files below. In addition, you
will need also to have a copy of the map that is being benchmarked:
Link:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecopyrght/image/solstice/win06/Germany/Poland,%201941%20Base%20Maps.kmz
Also, consider the second article in this set which uses the
benchmarked map in Google Earth only, to examine the problems
associated with interpolating lower level (smaller) central places on
the Google earth.
- 1901
United Kingdom. Contains 47 models. This historical study
offers visualization of the total population distribution of England,
Scotland, and Wales in 1901. In it, bar charts are situated on the
Google Earth sphere in locations corresponding to urban areas and
towns. Thus, one gets a picture of size in relation to location and the
opportunity to consider distance and environmental effects in
population growth. Visualization of this sort brings history to life in
an environmental, whole-earth, context. There are 199 .skp files
created individually, each representing a single bar perpendicular to
the earth. Each was uploaded to Google Earth where they were merged to
form a more convenient single .kmz containing all the information. To
see that .kmz that portrays the distribution across the entire island,
one must download the .kmz from the link below (rather than merely
uploading from the .skp file offered here as a sample of the entire
package). Link:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecopyrght/image/solstice/win06/arlbat2/1901UnitedKingdom.kmz
Or, upload each of the sample files (below) directly to GE from the
.skp files in this collection. The text in the Alnwick file serves for
all (rather than repeating it). This work appeared originally in
Arlinghaus and Batty, Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and
Mathematics, Vol. XVII, No. 2, December 21 2006. It is archived in the
Directory of Open Access Journals of the University of Lund, among
other places.
- Population-Environment
Dynamics. Contains 4 collections of selected models. Collections in this
set go beyond building creation and attempt to make imaginative use of
both Google SketchUp and Google Earth.
- 1901-2001
Greater London. Contains 11 models. Visualize changing
population patterns in relation both to the earth's surface and time:
the process can add substantially to traditionally graphed information.
The materials in this collection appeared originally in an article by
Arlinghaus and Batty, published in Solstice: An Electronic Journal of
Geography and Mathematics, Vol. XVII, No. 2, December 2006,
http://www.imagenet.org/. This article and a related one draw on simply
viewing clusters of bar charts as being similar to clusters of
buildings: vertical pattern offers insight of various sorts. Direct
link to that article:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecopyrght/image/solstice/win06/arlbat2/indexPartII.html
The .kmz files associated with the many .skp files have been
accumulated into one .kmz. Download that .kmz from the link below or
use the sample .skp files below to create individual .kmz files for
Bromley. Switch successive decades off and on in GE to animate the
pattern. The .kmz file below contains data for Bromley and for 31 other
London boroughs and for London, from 1901 to 2001. Link:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecopyrght/image/solstice/win06/arlbat2/GreaterLondon.kmz
- Ann
Arbor, MI: Collections. Contains 10 collections of
selected models. Set of collections of
geo-referenced models of Ann Arbor, both urban and environmental: 1.
Textured buildings of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) 2.
Untextured buildings of the DDA extruded to correct height. 3. Textured
buildings of The University of MIchigan 4. Sets of partially textured
buildings of The University of MIchigan 5. kmz file of all buildings
outside the DDA and outside The University of MIchigan, untextured and
extruded to an arbitrary height of 2 stories. 6. Allen Creek Floodplain.
- Archimedes'
Selected Collection. Contains 52 models. This collection
includes a selection of models by Archimedes of buildings and scenes in
Ann Arbor, Michigan. For a full set, see "Cities in Development." Also,
for numerous other 3D models of Ann Arbor, see http://www.imagenet.org/
and navigate to various versions of the "3D Atlas of Ann Arbor."
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Solstice articles. Virtual
Reality
Modeling Language (VRML) models made using direct vrml code or 3D
Studio Max software. Early ones use GIS software from ESRI
(ArcView with Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst extensions).
- 2005.
Volume XVI, Number 2. News:
Update on the 3D Atlas of Ann Arbor. -- Archimedes in Ann
Arbor? and, with Alyssa J. Domzal, Ui Sang Hwang, and Kris J.
Walters, Jr. Virtual Flood in the Allen Creek Floodplain and
Floodway. Link to
Deep Blue file. (Related partially
to a student project in K.-P. Beier's Virtual Reality course.) <>
- 2005.
Volume
XVI, Number 1. Spatial
Synthesis:
The
Evidence of Cartographic Example: Hierarchy and Centrality .
Link
to Deep Blue file.
- 2005.
Volume XVI, Number 1. Kioskland:
A Strategy for Linking Hierarchical Levels of Virtual Reality Maps
.
Link
to Deep Blue file.
- 2005.
Volume XVI, Number 1. With Ann Evans Larimore and Robert
Haug. A
Methodology for Historical Geography: Internet Implementation
. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2004.
Volume XV, Number 2. Spatial
Synthesis: 3D Atlas of Ann Arbor. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2004.
Volume XV, Number 2. With Braxton Blake. Two
Rivers Ridge: Capturing Art. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2004.
Volume XV, Number 1. With William Charles Arlinghaus. Spatial
Synthesis Sampler. Geometric
Visualization of Hexagonal Hierarchies: Animation and Virtual
Reality
. Link to
Deep Blue file. Pirelli INTERNETional Award, Semi-Finalist.
- 2004.
Volume XV, Number 1. Klaus-Peter Beier. One
Optimization of an Earlier Model of Virtual Downtown Ann Arbor. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2004.
Volume XV, Number 1. With Fred J. Beal and Douglas S.
Kelbaugh. The
View from
the Top: Visualizing Downtown Ann Arbor in Three Dimensions. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2004.
Volume XIV, Number 1. Andrew Walton. A
Golfer's Resource: Huron Hills Golf Course, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2004.
Volume XIV, Number 1. Thana Chirapiwat. Visualization
of Geographic Information with VRML. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2003.
Volume XIV, Number 2. With Ann Evans Larimore and Robert
Haug. Lewis
and Clark, 200 Years: A Visual Tribute to an Exploration.
The
Gates of the Rocky Mountains. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2003.
Volume XIV, Number 2. Ann
Arbor, Michigan: Virtual Downtown Experiments, Part II. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2003.
Volume XIV, Number 2. Taejung Kwon, Adrien
A. Lazzaro, Paul J.
Oppenheim, Aaron Rosenblum. Ann
Arbor, Michigan: Virtual Downtown Experiments, Part III. Link to
Deep Blue file. (Related partially to a student project in K.-P.
Beier's Virtual Reality course.)
- 2003.
Volume XIV, Number 1. Ann
Arbor, Michigan: Virtual Downtown Experiments. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2002.
Volume XIII, Number 2. Marc Schlossberg. Visual
Accessibility with GIS. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2001.
Volume XII, Number 1.
Maps
and Decisions: Allen's Creek Floodplain, Opportunity or Disaster?. Link to Deep
Blue file.
- 2000.
Volume XI, Number 2. Nakia D. Baird. Animap
Sequences . Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 2000.
Volume XI, Number 1. Animaps,
IV: Of Time and Place. Link to
Deep Blue file.
- 1998.
Volume IX, Number 1. With Ruben de la Sierra. Revitalizing
Maps or Images?. Link to
Deep Blue file.
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