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Globe Glider released!

Globe glider technology released after months of finetuning the best super mapping mashup on Earth...

News spreads fast about the great http://globeglider.net release, the super mapping mashup from Bernhard Sterzbach, visionary behind the Globe Glider.

At GeoGames, they are jumping to the roof and release the M3D Glider, a non-look-alike but feel-alike app - with a zest of 3D simulation that brings you well beyond the classic mashup.

How they do this?

With the Globe Glider enabling technology naturally.

This is but the beginning of a light-weight age of simulation technology for everyone - the long tail of simulation.

Interested about how it works? 

Go to globeglider.net/technology or look up a great video demo from Frank Taylor's Google Earth Blog

Beyond the mashup!

Beyond the mashup? Let me dare sketch a sneak preview here.

Read more at GeoGames...

Sketch for an M3D Glider User Experience/ User interface. Courtesy of Incubator Cube, Utrecht (NLD), special thanks to Henk Croon (Cube). Read the article 'Geosimulatie tot een succes maken' ('Make geo-simulation a succes') by LiveWire.nl (Case of the month, april 2007, Dutch), and Syntens.nl .

'Beyond the mashup'*.

More on geo- 3D simulation is due to unfold at http://www.geo-games.eu (redesign phase to suit our new, fresh, * tagline!) and at http://globeglider.net (Globe Glider Enabling Technology).

* (Synch on: Google Maps, Google Earth & Microsoft Virtual Earth)

So what is it they do over at GeoGames?

Read more on Beyond the mashup..

M3D Glider for the AEC industry

Cobouw (Sdu Uitgeverij NLD) notices M3D Glider at the Bouwbeurs AEC International Trade Fair Utrecht 2007.

Article by Irene de Bel, Sdu Uitgeverij February 10, 2007, NL.

[DUTCH]

"De M3D glider toont gebouwen driedimensionaal in Google Earth met daaraan gekoppeld hun locatie via Google Maps en extra informatie via een website. GeoGames uit Utrecht ontwikkelde de nieuwe ‘InfoTizing’ tool en lanceerde die op de Bouwbeurs.

“Via een link op de website kan een aannemer bijvoorbeeld al zijn bouwprojecten van het afgelopen jaar in beeld brengen”, zegt bedenker van de geo-advertentie tool Jérôme Bertrand.  “Of een producent van gevelplaten kan de mooiste bouwwerken met zijn product erin zetten.”

"Met een druk op de knop vliegt de M3D glider langs de gesimuleerde projecten ..."

[DUTCH]

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Is mobility confusing?

Mobility can be quite confusing at times...
but is this so bad?

Just an article that inspired me, check: Creativity and the value of confusion

"Don't fight confusion. Look at it this way:

First, we REFUSE (to have our status quo threatened).

Then, we get CONFUSED (trying to sort out all the new input).

Next, we try to DIFFUSE the process (by regressing or denying.)

Eventually, we get INFUSED (inundated by new insights).

And, finally, we get FUSED (connecting with previously unrelated elements to form a new and unified whole)."

So, what is confusion?

“Confusion is a word we have invented
for an order which is not yet understood.”
– Henry Miller

Above is a little blurry logo I designed ages ago... when Mobility was just emerging technology. This gives me inspiration at any time - again and again!

[logo design for a Nokia summer event on the dutch "west coast" beaches of 98, for an independent advertising agency]

So, confusion needs clarity. What is new? That's a good thing. It gets me started when design issues come either latent or emerging.. Getting the thing (anything) wrong first is only the best chance you'll ever get to make it better!

This is a little parabole that brings me to the place I want to be: introducing a new internet viewer for all of you Google Earth fans, advanced and casual users alike.

We called it the M3D Glider viewer. Soon to be released by our creative lab at geo-games.eu, I took the opportunity to set up a new Blog at [visualcuriosity] - all about the underlying themes of GeoDesign.

More on the M3D Glider soon at: http://visualcuriosity.blogs.com/geodesign/

visualcuriosity.ReadMe2006!

[Happy New! Year_2006

Happy New Year  to all location based earthlings!

[Click to see bigger image]

All right! Click on the image below to start download my new Google Earth 3D DEMO!

This demo showcases a few features including Fly-out balloons (located photographic content), 3D overlays (objects) and custom 3D buildings. I hope you like it!

Please feel free to give me your comments below.

First:
Make sure you have the Free Google Earth Viewer installed on you computer.
GET GOOGLE EARTH NOW!
 
Learn more about Google Earth 3D Overlays and read about our new theme for 2006 at Mediality3D.com:
'Location Based Simulation'

Google Earth earlier subject: "visualcuriosity.ReadMe05!"

More on Google Earth: earth.google.com

] a journey, not a destination

more on creativity >>

visualcuriosity is a website dedicated to the themes of design, visual creativity and learning.

What is a weblog?
Look up my portfolio galleries?
What is visualcuriosity? more >>

All texts, sketches, designs and photographs by visualcuriosity, Jerome Bertrand © 2004-2005 Copyright, unless specified otherwise.

visualcuriosity.ReadMe05!

[The World is flat after all? Ok, Google Earth is a thrill. But is it going to last?

Google Earth has gained great momentum since I first downloaded a trial version from Keyhole.com one year ago (before it was launched by Google).

GE offers simple souls and professionals like you and me a great new, free way to look at our planet. Just enjoy the view.

But is it anything more than a gadget?
When I realised it was possible to fly over great cities like Los Angeles or New York and see the massive 3D buildings in place (on exact GIS/ GPS location), I just thought, 'O.k. this is here to stay''.

 

 

 

 

 

Look at this 3D model in Google Earth: the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Visit our new website  mediality3D.com. We are presenting demos of Google Earth 3D buidlings.

'Continue reading "visualcuriosity.ReadMe05!"

More on Google Earth: earth.google.com

Visit our portfolio new gallery on Google Earth 3D at: Mediality-imaging.com

 ] a journey, not a destination

more on creativity >>

visualcuriosity is a website dedicated to the themes of design, visual creativity and learning.
 
What is a weblog?
Look up my portfolio galleries?
What is visualcuriosity? more >>

All texts, sketches, designs and photographs by visualcuriosity, Jerome Bertrand © 2004-2005 Copyright, unless specified otherwise.

visualcuriosity.ReadMe04!

[We finished at the 5th position at The 'Nacht van Spakenburg 2005' race!  
After time correction later, we went from 4th to 5th position.

The official message reads: "5: NB 1570: J. Straten of 'Attached' , maxfun 25, number 013, Handicap 88 Time: 11:18:1 Finish: 7:40:59 GMT Seconds: 46238"

Yes, ...

This is the new ReadMe04! message from visualcuriosity. I have been rather busy lately and waiting secretly to get just the right-and-relevant fourth item for my visualcuriosity blog readers. So here it is as it came to me - with just little delay indeed from the real life event. Here is the story.

I have been happy to participate to the dutch sailing race event 'Nacht van Spakenburg 2005' with skipper Jeroen van Straten and co-owner foreman Arnaud with friend -call-me-Ed- Edward last weekend. We sailed on 'Attached' a fantastic MaxFun 25. I was temporarily either Main or Jib trimmer and also a happy necessary dead weight... It appears that my food taste (anchovies on bread for breakfast at sea) did not really fit to the occasion. Nevermind, we finished at  07:40:59 Hours Saturday morning - fresh like a crew of Albatros.

'Continue reading "visualcuriosity.ReadMe04!"

The MaxFun series is a beautiful design from celebrated dutch firm Simonis /Voogd,  based in Enkhuizen, Holland and Cape Town, South Africa. The boats are built at Breehorn's shipyard.

"Attached IT", number 13, is sold!

More on MaxFun 25: http://www.maxfun25.com

More on the Open Dutch Championship 2003: Go to the Portfolio section of http://www.visualcuriosity.com, look up for the Gallery: 'Sailing and Marine Photography'.

More on the race and on the MaxFun 25 great racing machine, later on my Yachtdesign.blogs: http://visualcuriosity.blogs.com/yachtdesign/

] a journey, not a destination

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Yacht by design under: yachtdesign
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All texts, sketches, designs and photographs by visualcuriosity, Jerome Bertrand © 2004-2005 Copyright, unless specified otherwise.

visualcuriosity.ReadMeThird!

[ Evert Bloemsma left us
- designing by contour.

Our very dear friend Evert Bloemsma left us, with no warning, at age 46. Hart failure.

We are in great loss. I have no adequate words to describe fully the emptiness that I feel - let be the contours.

If it were not for the intense, sometimes also distant interaction we had over many years, investigating form, content, life and the typical french vernacular ingenuity in Typography and Architecture (for my final exam-project, Arnhem, 1988), I would have probably not named my own design practise, 'visualcuriosity'. Without knowing, Evert had everything to do with it. For his sweet friendship I will ever be gratefull.

Evert left us the elegant typeface FF Legato - as a legacy to his great talent. But how may more original typefaces could he have designed? With Evert, the face of the world indeed, has changed a little bit.

Continue reading "visualcuriosity.ReadMeThird!"

Evert's website:
evertbloemsma.nl

Much on Evert Bloemsma online:

FontShop.com 
Typolog
Intranet-stJoost Academy The Netherlands
FontFont - Fiffteen travelling exibitions shows the FF Cocon
MyFonts
typeforum.de
Bart van der Griendt

] a journey, not a destination

more on creativity >>

visualcuriosity is a website dedicated to the themes of design, visual creativity and coaching.

Design by sketching under: sketchdesign
What is a weblog?
Look up my portfolio?
What is visualcuriosity? more >>

All texts, sketches, designs and photographs by visualcuriosity, Jerome Bertrand © 2004-2005 Copyright, unless specified otherwise.

visualcuriosity.ReadMeSecond!

[ The 6 myths of creativity
In an interview with Fast Company, [Teresa Amabile] busted six cherished myths about creativity. (If you want to quash creativity in your organization, just continue to embrace them.) Here they are, in her own words.
fastcompany, http://www. fastcompany.com/ magazine/ 89/creativity.html

] a journey, not a destination

more on creativity >>

visualcuriosity is dedicated to the themes of design, visual creativity and coaching - yes, all in one!

Design by sketching: sketchdesign
Is this internet site a weblog, or an active portfolio?
What is visualcuriosity? more >>

All texts, sketches, designs and photographs by visualcuriosity, Jerome Bertrand © 2004 Copyright, unless specified otherwise.

visualcuriosity.ReadMeFirst!

[ Gaming-technoholism
In a wide-ranging, combative Soapbox essay, UK designer Kelly takes the opportunity to brand the games industry as 'technoholics', "addicted to the ability of new technology to anesthetize fear of the future", and suggests a 12-step solution to this apparent dilemma. [12.29.04]
Soapbox, http://www.gamasutra.com/
] a journey, not a destination

visualcuriosity is dedicated to the themes of design, visual creativity and coaching - yes, all in one!

Design by sketching: sketchdesign
Is this site a weblog or a web gallery?
What is visualcuriosity? more >>

All texts, sketches, designs and photographs by visualcuriosity, Jerome Bertrand © 2004 Copyright, unless specified otherwise.