Virtual Farm

A Virtual Visit of a Hillside Farm

by Giuliano Vitali, Antonio Ferretti - Nov 2011

Motivation

Realising a virtual copy of an existing farm to make it easy to visit it and realise its structure, dynamics and differences with others

 

Technology

A real farm from Abruzzo has been copied to the UNITY 3D Virtual Reality Environment. Surfaces, crops, buildings, mechanical equipments have been drawn carefully to re-create a realistic environment to let a user to develop a dynamical landscape which can be used to show the appearence of agriculture management and choices. The project has begun June 2009, and concluded with Thesys dissertation - 2011.nov.25

Presentation

Presentation of the thesys "Communicate Organic Agriculture by Virtualisation" (it:"COMUNICARE L’AGRICOLTURA BIOLOGICA ATTRAVERSO LA VIRTUALIZZAZIONE") is available

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Problems Emerged

some specialisation is required to write javascripts to link element motion to user commands (e.g. tractor wheels) and to use real plant pictures to build a crop pattern

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