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3D Model of New York Available for Free (and Commercial Use)

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Re: 3D Model of New York Available for Free (and Commercial Use)

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Post by christigeo »

Digital twin company Geopipe offers a free 3D model of New York City, with its real-life buildings, terrain, and streets. You can download any part of the city in FBX, OBJ, DAE, GLTF/GLB, and OSG formats to use in other software.

To get the customizable and interactive model, you will need to create an account, which gives you free credits every month. Use the currency to download the city or its districts.

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Post by samspenc »

elfprince13 wrote: post #3

I am one of the founders of this company! Happy to answer any questions that crop up.

IIRC KitBash [1] is the largest player in this space and has photo-realistic models of large environments including San Francisco. Are you planning to compete with them head-to-head in the same market?

[1] https://kitbash3d.com/

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Post by elfprince13 »

mdorazio wrote: post #4

Are the building textures from photos? It looks a lot cleaner than I remember NYC being.

We are doing inverse procedural modeling rather than photogrammetry, so there will be some idealization/iconification that takes place - but this also allows end-users to bring in their own material libraries in a pretty seamless way.

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samspenc wrote: post #5
elfprince13 wrote: post #3

I am one of the founders of this company! Happy to answer any questions that crop up.

IIRC KitBash [1] is the largest player in this space and has photo-realistic models of large environments including San Francisco. Are you planning to compete with them head-to-head in the same market? [1] https://kitbash3d.com/

It looks like their core business model is modular asset packs, not necessarily tied to real world environments? Potentially some overlap, but I would guess it's unlikely we would be going head-to-head with them in most customer use cases.

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Post by samstave »

elfprince13 wrote: post #7
samspenc wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC KitBash [1] is the largest player in this space and has photo-realistic models of large environments including San Francisco. Are you planning to compete with them head-to-head in the same market? [1] https://kitbash3d.com/

It looks like their core business model is modular asset packs, not necessarily tied to real world environments? Potentially some overlap, but I would guess it's unlikely we would be going head-to-head with them in most customer use cases.

Have you 3D printed any of the buildings in your data-set?

Specifically bridges, and would it be easy to extract just bridges from your set?

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