3D Design and Modeling of Smart Cities from a Computer Graphics Perspective

Figure 10

Future city meteorology. Top: original urban scenario for Indianapolis, Indiana (USA). Bottom: hypothetical (edited) urban scenario where the southwest corner became parks. Using land use/land cover data (left column), complemented by population and terrain data, this prototype automatically produces a plausible 3D city model (second and third columns) from which urban morphology parameters are extracted for a regional weather simulation over Indiana (fourth and rightmost columns). In this example, the proposed change increases city temperature and decreases city rainfall (image from [11]).