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by: Erik Lewis
Inside Track
BxmC: Betaville Betaville at Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC) http://bxmc.poly.edu/betaville From BxmC’s website: “Betaville is an open-source multiplayer environment for real cities, in which ideas for new works of public art, architecture, urban design, and development can be shared, discussed, tweaked, and brought to maturity in context, and with the kind of broad participation people take for granted in open source software development...”
Betaville Interface
Autodesk Research: Project Dasher Project Dasher at Autodesk Research http://www.autodeskresearch.com/pages/dasher The Overview reads: “Project Dasher is a web-based application that helps to augment existing Autodesk® Revit® design models with real-time building submeter and sensor data on electricity and occupancy. Using meter and sensor data, Autodesk Project Dasher aims to demonstrate the value of integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and building instrumentation to
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