icaruswept

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by icaruswept 2y ago
Thanks!
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by icaruswept 2y ago
The readme files in the repo have screenshots. Tried linking them here, but the URLs are massive, so let me link the docs - 1) Methodology: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro... 2) M
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by icaruswept 2y ago
I'm reminded of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and the child genius Thomasina . . . "If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were real
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Sadly, the height maps and the OSM road imports were quite borked, so I just ended up doing all the roads by hand with the maps on a second monitor. Some screenshots of the process here: https://github.com/team-watchdog&#x2F
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Sadly, that happens. We use image overlay and exports off ESPG 4326 and tweaked the hell out of the coords until it worked. Even then there are still issues - which is why we're about 100m shorter than the real city. The overlays match
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Methodology here: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro... We've also tweaked many of the assumptions (traffic flow, citizen lifecycles etc) https://github.com/team
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Realistically I don't think the UDA (Urban Development Authority) will use this, BUT we have had calls with them where they asked to see a demo and seemed massively excited at the prospect of being able to visualize changes in the char
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by icaruswept 2y ago
So two people (myself and Nimesha) working for about four months straight, I think. Mostly eight to ten hour days. Three academics helping us find data for when public sources ran dry (especially flow along the corridors) - see the workflow
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by icaruswept 2y ago
I think at some point I will, but this is a task that takes multiple overlapping fields of expertise - from simulations to 3D rendering. I'll teach myself over time. I build little procedural generation experiments for fun that make th
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Not even remotely close. If you have millions of dollars and lots of talented programmers, I can build an engine from scratch. We do not live in an ideal world - public policy is about the art of the possible, and $19.99 (cost of Skylines i
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Coming up. I'm implementing some small bits of the COMTRANs plan, as it's politically relevant to our election cycle right now ( https://www.transport.gov.lk/web/images/downloads/F-CoMTrans... ). It w
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by icaruswept 2y ago
They've been surprisingly receptive. We've taken care to point out that the map is not the territory, but we've had conversations with urban planners and professors (especially the Town and Country planning department at the
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We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines(github.com)
511 points by icaruswept 2y ago|183 comments
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by icaruswept 2y ago
A crude 'digital twin` with detailed land use and zoning based on official city development plans and data centered around 2020; over a million virtual citizens, simulating population dynamics that reflect large-scale, real-world demog
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Antilibrary – simple AI-based personal librarian(github.com)
2 points by icaruswept 3y ago|1 comments
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by icaruswept 3y ago
A little tool that lets you ask questions from your pdfs, epubs, text files and word documents. Think Chatpdf.com or Box AI, but a personal librarian. "The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic