UPDATE 12/02/2017: So it looks like the police have Howell Emanuel Donaldson III in custody now. After reviewing his home location with these incidents, I was way off. Now this could be attributed to a few things but I am convinced … Continue reading GIS and Tampa’s Serial Killer
The following is a presentation submission that I did for the ICC 2017 Conference in Washington D.C. A great deal of work was put into this and I wanted to challenge myself to making my concept map a reality. Here’s … Continue reading The Huygens Crater of Mars: A Case Study using GIS and Video Game Engines
Perhaps it’s selfish but I created these tutorials for my personal reference and I am so glad that this blog is being used by people. It motivates me to continue writing them and I certainly appreciate the shout out that … Continue reading CityEngine Tutorial Series: Walls and Other Sides
So the typical progression of going from a base Lot (2D shapefile of a building footprint) to a Roof involves assigning walls and a front facade. I’m opting to skip explaining this step for now because I found it confusing … Continue reading CityEngine Tutorial Series: Roofs
The first thing I wanted to learn how to do in CityEngine was figure out how to assign colors to my data. I apparently wasn’t alone since CityEngine 2015 now allows you to user select color to different shapefiles without … Continue reading CityEngine Tutorial Series: Attributes, Rules, and Base Color
Esri’s CityEngine is both an incredibly useful program for rapidly creating cityscapes and a total nightmare to learn. Once a user learns the fundamentals the possibilities for creating within CityEngine are essentially limitless. Although it has taken me almost a … Continue reading Esri’s CityEngine & Procedural Model Generation
After being warmly received by the PC gaming community, Cities: Skylines has become a serious contender to the Sim City series. Although Cities: Skylines is an addictive game, as well as having a low price of $29.99, it can be … Continue reading Cities: Skylines allows users to create their own terrain from DEMs!
“I’m more of a 2D, database kind of guy, I don’t need bells and whistles that make a map prettier or bring that certain cool factor to it.” That used to be how I thought prior to starting my new … Continue reading Origins and creating my very first 3D model in SketchUp
Gaming with GIS 