Virtual Dublin Project

Welcome to the homepage of the ISG Virtual Dublin pages. The goal of this project is to create an immersive virtual urban environment which is capable of running in real-time on domestic hardware. Further work will involve using the urban simulation to model traffic conjestion and crowd motion and to integrate with handheld devices for guiding purposes.

Publications:

The following is a list of publications relevant to the Virtual Dublin project:

S. Dobbyn, J. Hamill, K. O'Conor and C. O'Sullivan, Geopostors: A Real-Time Geometry/Impostor Crowd Rendering System, Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D) , Washington DC, April 2005, edited by Luebke, D. and Pfister, H.P., ACM Press, 2005, pp95 - 102 This paper was selected as one of three I3D papers to be presented at a papers session of SIGGRAPH 2005 and a version appears in ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3) (July 2005) p: 933 - 933
J. Hamill, R. McDonnell, S. Dobbyn and C. O'Sullivan, Perceptual Evaluation of Impostor Representations for Virtual Humans and Buildings., Computer Graphics Forum, 24, (3), 2005
A. Brosnan, S. Dobbyn, J. Hamill, C. O'Sullivan, Animating Humans on Handheld Devices for Interactive Gaming, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Hong Kong, 2005
J. Hamill and C. O'Sullivan, Virtual Dublin: A Framework for Real-Time Urban Simulation, Journal of WSCG, 11, 2003, p221 - 225

Downloads:

The Virtual Dublin Model Download page is available here . Below are some older models that may also be useful.

At the bottom of this page are some samples from the TCD section of the virtual city. The following selection of OBJ Models of various buildings of the Trinity College Dublin Campus are made available for educational purposes only. These models may be viewed in most 3D applications or may be incorporated into your own applications so long as the ISG is credited and the models (or parts thereof) are not distributed beyond TCD.

These samples form part of a larger collection of models utilised in the Virtual Dublin Project.

Screenshots:

Follow this LINK to the screenshot page for the Virtual Dublin Project.

Video:

Click HERE to view a selection of videos of the project in action.

Living City: Crowds in Virtual Dublin

Click HERE to read about how we integrated crowds into Virtual Dublin

Credits:

Please click HERE to see the people who have worked on this project.

Front Square Sample:

These models are a smaple of those in the full Virtual Dublin system. They are from the front square area of Trinity College Dublin. More models can be found on the download page above. Click on the images below to download a zipfile containing the respective model.

All models here retextured or rebuilt John Hamill based off the original ISG 3DS Max TCD Model.

John Hamill (aka MrPunch)

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