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Build your own city

Filed Under : 3D, Digital City by admin
Jun.23,2010

Procedural Inc. today introduced CityEngine 2010, the latest version of its city creation software based on unique procedural techniques. The main novelties are interactive editing of dynamic city layouts, node-based rule authoring, and a sketching tool for facades. The software was awarded Killer Technology by the 3D World magazine and is used by companies such as Pixar, Dreamworks, Foster+Partners, Zaha Hadid, Rockstar North, Blizzard, Microsoft, IBM, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and municipalities all around the world.

“CityEngine 2010 lets you create smart 3D cities! They are intuitively to control, flexible to interactive manipulation and can be completely driven by GIS data.” says Pascal Mueller, CEO of Procedural Inc. “Users from all industries benefit from smart 3D cities generated with CityEngine, ranging from Masdar City, the first zero energy city ever planned, to feature films by studios such as Pixar or Dreamworks. And due the new node-based rule editor, also users without scripting knowledge can now use the unlimited power of procedural modeling – without being restricted to pre-defined typologies or technical constraints.”

New Key Features in CityEngine 2010 :
* Dynamic City Layouts (intuitive and interactive modification of urban structures on all levels)
* Node-based Rule Editor (visual programming interface for procedural modeling beginners)
* Facade Wizard (practical visual sketching tool for facades)

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Search engines results

Filed Under : DMC, Digital City, I-City, Smart City, U-City by admin
Apr.12,2009

Today’s Google search results for :

D-city : 3 billions 320 millions pages
Digital city : 227 millions pages
Digital Media city : 129 millions pages
E-city : 416 millions pages
I-city : 421 millions pages
Intelligent city : 67 millions 700 pages
Smart city : 87 millions 100 pages
U-city : 190 millions pages

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Digital City description

Filed Under : Digital City by admin
Jan.6,2007

The term Digital City (or Digital Community) refers to a connected community that combines broadband communications infrastructure. Flexible, service-oriented computing infrastructure based on open industry standards; and innovative services to meet the needs of governments and their employees, citizens and businesses. The geographical dimension (space) of digital communities vary: they can be extended from a city district up to a multi-million metropolis.

While wireless infrastructure is a key element of Digital City infrastructure, it is only a first step. The Digital City may require hard-wired broadband infrastructure, and it is much more than just the network. A Digital City provides interoperable, Internet-based government services that enable ubiquitous connectivity to transform key government processes, both internally across departments and employees and externally to citizens and businesses. Digital City services are accessible through wireless mobile devices and are enabled by services oriented enterprise architecture including Web services, the Extensible Markup Language (XML), and mobilized software applications. In computing, area in cyberspace, either text-based or graphical, that uses the model of a city to make it easy for visitors and residents to find specific types of information.

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