iOS, 3D Graphics and Data
I decided the previous video could do with some improvements! This version now has a small route programmed for the camera to get rid of the jerky movement from the previous video. This video is also HD - in 1080p @ 48 fps as opposed to the previous 480p video. This video also introduces the rendering of… Continue reading Open Street Map video – Now in HD!
We have heights! To improve the realism of the building/city rendering the next step I took was to parse the building heights from the Open Street map objects. The height tag is described on the OSM Wiki here. The main points are as following: the "height" tag of the way returns the maximum height of the… Continue reading Building Heights!
Now that we have the walls complete, I thought it would be a good time to move onto rendering the rooftops! Instead of having to triangulate the polygons myself, I looked online to find a triangular to do it for me. I stumbled across an old flipcode article that had a triangular in it. I simply… Continue reading Rendering Rooftops – Triangulating polygons
Progressing Forwards At the end of the previous post I had processed the Openstreet map data - created polygon data for each building and then drawn these buildings using the GL_LINE primitives to give us a wireframe outline for the building as shown below: To take this to the next stage - the next task was to draw… Continue reading Rendering solid walls
In my previous blog post, I shared how I converted objects the Open Street map data into a form in which I could begin rendering it using OpenGL - well in my case OpenGLES. At the end of the previous post I had a list of points that I simply converted into vertical lines and… Continue reading Rendering Building Edges from Open Street Map
So I finally got rid of those cubes which I showed in the first blog and made some progress. I started by creating a simple web service to query data from the overpass API - I mostly stole the request URL from the Vizicities source. I hope the creator (Rob Rawks) doesn't mind! The main steps that… Continue reading Rendering Building Corners with Open Street Map
Rendering Cities using OSM So lately I was feeling like getting back into messing around with some 3D "stuff". I recently came across Vizicities and was inspired to do something similar myself. The basic Idea is to render a city (in this case) using open source data from Open Street Map. One of the reasons I… Continue reading City Rendering with OSM
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