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Paper: 7aa6
| Paper title: | Visiting The Virtual City [Visitar la Ciudad Virtual] |
| Authors: | Maver, T., Petric, J., Ennis, G. and Lindsay, M. |
| Summary: | In 1999, the city of Glasgow in Scotland, celebrated the honour of being the UK City of Architecture and Design. The same year saw the successful launch, on the Internet, of <vrglasgow.com> a fully interactive virtual experience of the city. This paper describes the evolution and functionality of vrglasgow over the last 10 years and anticipates its future development over the next 5 years. Currently the system comprises the VRML topography, the road network and the 3-D geometry of around 10,000 buildings within the city centre. The visitor to the virtual city to navigate and search under a range of headings for items of interest and experience some of Glasgow’s best architecture. Data from a number of information sources are interlinked and made accessible through VRML as well as through the conventional internet modes such as lists, tables and search engines. Consequently, the visitor can explore the city intuitively. |
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| Year of publication: | 2000 |
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/7aa6.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Maver, T., Petric, J., Ennis, G. and Lindsay, M. (2000). Visiting The Virtual City [Visitar la Ciudad Virtual]. SIGraDi’2000 - Construindo (n)o espacio digital (constructing the digital Space) [4th SIGRADI Conference Proceedings / ISBN 85-88027-02-X] Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 25-28 september 2000, pp. 135-139, http://itc.scix.net/paper/7aa6 |
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