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- Engaging Citizens in 3D City Planning -
Esri CityEngine & Minecraft
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Brought to you by:Brian de Vogel
- VU Amsterdam -
Safe Software- Makers of FME -
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A 10 Year Old City Planner?
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A 10 Year old City Planner?
Seeing the Value:Source: http://blockbyblock.org/
“Block by Block involves young people in the planning of urban public spaces. Minecraft has turned out to be the perfect tool to facilitate this process.”
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Players are placed in a borderless, randomly generated land with no supplies, directions, or objective. It's up to them to decide what to do. By collecting materials
from the world players can ‘craft’ items and build whatever their minds can imagine.
learningworksforkids.com
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How we can share our worlds with theirs.
How 2D data can be leveraged in 3D with Esri CityEngine.
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Appeal to a wider audience
3 Keys:
Make it easy.Make it cheap.Make it fun.
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Real-world scenarios
My town - its current look, what if we build/destroy
Forest fire (ie. Stanley Park)
Lava flow (ie. Hypothetical Mount Rainier eruption)
Sea levels raising
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Living in a new worldRacing across Toronto streets
Roller coasters in nature
And, of course, the fun stuff
Maze Generating
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Project Vision:Leverage Esri CityEngine and Minecraft to increase citizen engagement in neighborhood design & planning
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Source Materials
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Andrés Nieto Porras
GIS and CityEngine to Minecraft
CityEngine is a great tool for transforming data into a realistic city model, which can then be
adjusted according to further needs.
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Goal: Combine 2D & 3D datasets to create a 3D model in CityEngine
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CGA rulesOutput
City Engine Results
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City Engine Results
The GIS output becomes a canvas of the city in Minecraft, which then offers a gaming style geo design tool that citizens and their children can interact with.
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How it’s done
● Create CGA Rules to Create a 3D World● Apply rules to create 3D objects in
CityEngine
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The path from CityEngine to Minecraft● Export the model to a 3D format for further work in FME
(Esri Data Interoperability Extension)● CityEngine rules for can prepare for conversion to
Minecraft ● Data Interop / FME Workbench creates the
transformation to Minecraft
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Project Summary
CityEngine is a powerful tool for combining 2D & 3D datasets. The 3D model output is realistic and puts the data in a perfect position to be converted to Minecraft.
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Thinking outside the block
Photo: hobbymb via Flickr
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BIM to Minecraft is fun and easy!
Photo: hobbymb via Flickr
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Output
Input (IFC)
▪ Map IFC objects to Minecraft block types
▪ Convert each IFC object to Point Cloud
▪ Consider scaling depending on use case
▪ Watch x/y/z position for multiple building worlds
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Linear Network to Minecraft(Railway)
Source
Vancouver Skytrain Shapefile
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How to Make Minecraft Worlds
fme.ly/MinecraftWorlds