"A novel approach to intuitive and self-explanatory interaction between a crowd of untrained persons and highly sophisticated software applications. The MRI project is focused strongly on usability and user-behaviour issues." (credits: Thomas Kienzl)
A quick video of the procedural modeling they used in the recreation of 1933 New York City. To create the 100,000+ unique building they devised a procedural (automated) modeling system in Maya to atomatically generate building massing from a preset vocabulary (office building, brownstone, etc.) as well as texturing and rendering. The shadows were baked in later.
Dave Filoni talks about his experiences directing the new film as well as some behind the scenes stories concerning his certified Star Wars fanboy status.
This is some video I took during a trip to Paris a few years ago. It consists of a walk throughy the Pompidou center and a look at some of the architecture models, furniture (a kitchen set designed by Corbusier), and some of the other art exhibits.
