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Sunday, January 4th, 2009

The Use of 3D Visualization in Planning and Design—Is 3D a luxury or a necessity?

3D has gradually been making inroads into the planning and design mainstream. It’s not unusual in a public presentation or submittal to see a 3D image rather than an artist’s rendering, and occasionally one actually sees 3D movie “fly arounds”. However, in today’s reality of reduced funding for both staff and software, one has to