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PatchBox r275 – Real-time City Scape Preview

8 September, 2008 (23:48) | PatchBox | By: Alex May

Am working on a new PatchBox patch for an event Quadratura is doing on November 1st.? It involves a moving city scape, which I originally intended to be revolving from right to left with various levels of parallax.

I already have most of the script code needed for this so thought I’d try something a little bit different.

200 copies of the empire state building rotating around a sphere

200 copies of the Empire State building rotating around a sphere

The screen grab shows 200 copies of the Empire State building protruding from a sphere.? Actually you can only see a few as the camera is positioned near the top of the sphere, but they are there!

Each building is randomly sized and the whole lot is being rotated so the buildings rise in the distance and move towards the camera as though it is flying across a very small, although highly populated planet.

The still doesn’t really do it justice but the effect works pretty well.

Much still to add but should be an interesting result!

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Comments

Comment from ben wheatley
Time September 9, 2008 at 12:56 pm

lets see it moving!

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