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Live Tube Trains

As an update to the last post, I’ve put the agent script model of the live tube trains on the web. This shows the “nearly” live positions of all tube trains in London. One warning though, you need to...

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Fractal Benchmarks

I blame whoever printed out the Sierpinski triangle wikipedia page on Friday, but I’ve always been interested geometry, so I had to have a go at building one. The title of this post is a reference to...

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Programmable Maps

I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with the tools available to visualise the tube, bus and train data I’ve been collecting, so I’ve ended up creating my own. If you’re wondering why some of the...

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Another Day Another Tube Strike

The image above is the position of all the tubes at 09:47 this morning, 29th April 2014. As I was walking into work though, I was looking at the licence numbers of all the old Routemaster buses that...

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Tiling the Blue Marble

Following on from my last post about level of detail and Earth spheroids, here is the NASA Blue Marble texture applied to the Earth: The top level texture is the older composite Blue Marble which shows...

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Pigeon Sim goes to LonCon3

The pigeon sim visited the LonCon3 72nd World Science Fiction convention at the ExCeL centre last week. The event covered Thursday 14th to Monday 18th, with the weekend looking like the best part as...

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3D Buildings

I’ve been experimenting with 3D buildings in my virtual globe project and it’s now progressed to the point where I can demonstrate it working with dynamically loaded content. The following YouTube clip...

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ModelTube

  ModelTube is the name of the project to integrate agent based modelling into MapTube. Back at the end of last year I did a blog post on how to integrate AgentScript with Google Maps:...

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Fun with Turtles

Following on from my last post on running agent based models in MapTube using AgentScript, I’ve now got my “live” tube animation working: I’ve speeded up the trains by a factor of 10 so you can see...

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Last one out switch off the lights

After three years, this is my final day on the Talisman project as I start on the Future Cities Catapult project on October 1st. If you go back through the blog posts, all the project highlights are...

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