Google 3D Warehouse

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Google 3D Warehouse

Google 3D warehouse is a place where you can search and download sketchup (skp) 3D files found in Google Earth.

I remember reading somewhere once that the Indian government requested Google to filter out sensitive images of Indian military aerial view photos in Google Earth, this makes me wonder how would Osama bin Laden make full use of Google 3D warehouse – search for SketchUp 3D Pentagon. Found any interesting 3D models? hmm…. am looking for Bill Gate’s house, Nasa Space Shuttle, and most of all Honda’s Aibo robot.

The library is relatively new and limited, but I believe in a few months time the “.skp” file would be the standard in displaying 3D models online. Imagine online readers are able to download 3D models of their favorite phone and toy with it and I believe Google plan to roll out a 3D GPS system, where car drivers can navigate thru a virtual city instead of reading a map for direction.

What Google SketchUp lack is a 3D rendering engine with ray tracing and radiocity, and with the freely available libraries on the net plus a good rendering engine, autodesk has just found a new enemy.

Google 3D Warehouse

Google 3D Warehouse

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  • ^ Architecture - Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
  • ^ Architect - An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
  • ^ Pritzker Architecture Prize - The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".
  • ^ - Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover Publications(1985). ISBN 0-486-25023-7
  • ^ - Rondanini, Nunzia Architecture and Social Change Heresies II, Vol. 3, No.

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