Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing People-Friendly Streets With DIY Digital Transformation Tools

Foliage, a cycleway and a play park has been added to an asphalt jungle. In the Victorian era, architects used watercolor paintings to visualize their proposed buildings and streetscapes for clients. Scale models and illustrations were used by 20th-century planners, artifacts that were later replicated with experts using computer graphics. A bespoke visualization from a computer graphics expert is costly and time-consuming. Now there are online tools that can help transform a streetscape in seconds, requiring just basic digital skills. With the latest AI and computer-generated imagery (CGI) tools, you can upload a “before” photo of a car-dominated street and, minutes later, get an “after” version with the cars replaced with trees and asphalt replaced with setts. On October 14, the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions launched a Cycling Lifestyle AI tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Google Streetview to transform the look of any street into a people-friendly one. MORE FOR YOU Ivanka Trump Helped Her Dad Lie About His Net Worth Federal Judge Reinstates Trump s Gag Order In Election Interference Case U.S. Business Group Meets China’s Foreign Minister, Lauds Exchanges Ahead Of APEC Meeting “With this tool, people will have the opportunity to add […]

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