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[Sverchok]New Plugin for Blender-Sverchok: Mega-Polis - A Data-Driven Urban Design Toolkit

  1. V by victorklixto on 23 Nov 2022, edited 10 Aug 2023 # +15 votes

    Dear all,

    I have been developing a free and open source plugin for Blender-Sverchok for my thesis. This plugin aims to assist data-driven urban design processes. It is called Mega-Polis, and now it is available on the GitHub.

    https://github.com/victorcalixto/mega-polis

    The documentation is underdevelopment, but I did a demonstration of some nodes that is available on YouTube.

    This is an ongoing research, therefore, this plugin still very experimental and under HEAVILY development.

    The toolkit is divided into: Gathering, Analysis, Generation, and Visualisation tools.

    Gathering

    • Read GIS (shapefile, geopackage, geojson)

    • Read CSV Files

    • Read DEM (GeoTIFF)

    • Read LAS (.las)

    • OSM Downloader

    • Load Street Network

    • Download Street Imagery

    • Download Data URL

    • Request Data API

    • Get Pandas Feature

    • Pandas Dataframe

    • Pandas Series

    • Get Sample Dataframe

    • Split String

    Analysis

    • DEM Terrain Attributes

    • Network Analyses

    • Shortest Path

    • Whitebox GIS Tool (Whitebox Tools Connection)

    • Isovists

    • Dataframe Utils

    • Object Detection (YoloV5)

    • Detectron (Instance and Panoptic Segmentation based on Detectron2)

    • Correlation

    • Correlation With

    • Get Feature At

    • Get Feature Index

    • Linear Model Selection

    • Model Fit

    • Model Predict

    Generation

    • Faces from Vertices

    • CSV to Dataframe

    • Lat-Lon to Points

    • Pandas Filter

    • Pandas Map Feature

    • Sequential Colormap

    • Transpose Dataframe

    • Get File Path

    • File to Geo Dataframe

    • File to GeoJSON

    Visualisation

    • Seaborn Plot

    • WebVR Connector (A-Frame)

    • Dashboard Creation

    • Dashboard Bokeh Figure

    • Dashboard Bokeh Plot Chart

    • Dashboard Bokeh Plot Line

    • Dashboard Dataframe

    • Dashboard Load Map

    • Dashboard Map

    • Dashboard Markdown

    • Dashboard Mesh

    • Dashboard Plotly Figure

    • Dashboard Plotly Scatter

    • Dashboard Server

    • Dataframe Visualisation

    • Python Server

    Many thanks,

    Victor.

  2. G by Gorgious on 23 Nov 2022 # +2 votes

    Wow node enthusiasts are having an early chirstmas this year !! This looks SO dope.

    I can't wait to try it out ! Unfortunately I'm having trouble with the dependencies.

    It would be nice to have a button in the preferences to auto-install all the mandatory dependencies :)

    Some of them look like they're only available for linux and macOS ? eg https://detectron2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/install.html

  3. V by victorklixto on 23 Nov 2022 # +2 votes

    Hi @Gorgious, I was having the same error yesterday! Please, make sure that your Sverchok version is the latest. This button to auto-install all dependencies would be nice, let's see if we can work out it later. Unfortunately, detectron2 does not have official support for windows, but I saw that people managing to install it with after install Visual C++ https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2/issues/4015

  4. N by nikitron on 3 Dec 2022 # +1 votes

    Thank you!

  5. V by victorklixto on 4 Dec 2022 #

    Thank you @nikitron for creating the Sverchok! We have a feasible free and open source source visual programming tool because someday you decided to start the project! Many thanks again!

  6. J by jags on 23 Feb 2023 # +2 votes

    awesome work and still struggling with dependencies and install issues and a workaround or solution on same will to explorations. still not solved detectron install with the blender 3.4 version. Many thanks and will update on how i went thru same to complete run.

  7. V by victorklixto on 27 Feb 2023 #

    Hi @jags, I will set up a Windows machine to also try to install it. Many thanks!

  8. M by Moult on 27 Feb 2023 # +1 votes

    @victorklixto would you be interested in writing a short article about it to be published on OSArch.org? It would be great to advertise this work further!

  9. V by victorklixto on 27 Feb 2023 #

    Hi @Moult, sure it will be nice. Please let me know more about it.

    Many Thanks.

    Cheers,

  10. M by Moult on 27 Feb 2023 #

    @victorklixto it's a minimum of 300 words and should include keywords related to your topic and 2 or more images :) You can send it to dion@thinkmoult.com if you want and I can post on your behalf, or I can also give you an account on the Wordpress backend and you can do it yourself :) (and if you want you can continue to write about it and other topics in the future)

  11. V by victorklixto on 27 Feb 2023 #

    Thanks, @Moult. I will do it as soon as I can. I am finishing revising my thesis at this moment. In a few weeks, I will be able to do it.

    Many thanks.

  12. B by baswein on 9 Aug 2023 # +1 votes

    @victorklixto - I saw your comment on the other thread. Hope this is going well. I haven't had a chance to play with it but I am really excited about this project!

  13. V by victorklixto on 10 Aug 2023 # +4 votes

    Hi @baswein ,

    Many thanks, I am doing great, how about ? I am glad that you are interested in the project. I was busy until last Tuesday and I could not dedicate the time that I was expecting to the project, but the project is updated and running in the last Sverchok version.

    I am planning to invest some time in the next months again, starting to produce documentation and tutorials.

    Also, I need to make the installation process of the dependencies easier and after that invest time on improving the performance, legibility of the code, etc.

    There are several improvements that I want to make, and anyone interested in the project are more than welcome to contribute.

    Hi @Moult, I am sorry that I could not have time to produce the article for the OSArch yet, but it is something that I am very keen to do as soon as I can.

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