International Newsletter vol.40 2010/11
11.30.2010
FORUM8 Co., Ltd. http://www.forum8.com/
Results Announcement of 3D VR Contest
We are pleased to announce that the Design Festival 2010 was held successfully from November 17 to19, 2010 and on the third day of Design Festival, the 9th 3D VR Simulation Contest was carried out with the following results :
We would like to express our appreciation to everyone who has taken time off to attend our annual event and we look forward to seeing you next year!

GRAND PRIX
"Proposal of underground installation of Hanshin expressway and improved city using VR"
Faculty of Policy Studies, Kansai University
The underground installation of Hanshin expressway is visualized to illustrate the beautiful landscape in the urban area, secure green and pedestrian space and to maintain the wide city space while proposing for the improvement of OSAKA city. It is used to discuss in a wide range of issues relating to reorganization. In addition, the analysis of traffic or pedestrians' movement and disaster are performed considering different time frames. Consideration of space reallocation to maximize utilization of the city in the future was also carried out.


EXCELLENCE AWARD
"Highway driving simulator system"
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd
Events with potential danger on the expressway was represented in VR to illustrate safe driving through the evaluation and analysis of the experience drive behavior. The advanced reality was sought for the road structure such as road accessories (signs), building, plant, vehicle movement. The result of experience driving data is stored and analyzed to be used for safe driving.


IDEA AWARD
"Debris avalanche simulation"
Faculty of Engineering, Gunma University
A large-sized debris avalanche occurred in Cikangkareng due to the earthquake (M7.3) in the off Indian Ocean, the west of Java. This avalanche was simulated in 3D VR in the inhabitant workshop to investigate the actual condition. In addition, the mechanism of debris movement is represented in a 3D environment to illustrate the opinions of geology experts for the proposal of various effective uses.


ESSENCE AWARD
"STRIDING AHEAD! Modeling Unpredictable Pedestrian Road Crossing Behavior"
Abley Transportation Consultants Limited(New Zealand)
Iiam Road is located in a residential area of Christchurch and provides access to the University of Canterbury. Due to its close proximity large numbers of pedestrians walk along and cross Iiam Road, often informally taking the quickest routes. Safety and efficiency concerns have lead to the need for a redevelopment of Ilam Road. In order to represent the nature of university students who tend to cross the road at random locations rather than using formalized crossings the UC-win/Road Micro simulation player plugin was used in conjunction with an S-Paramics model and the S- Paramics plugin.


DEVELOPMENT AWARD
"A publicity drive simulator for EV and charging system in SmartGrid"
SK Energy Co., Ltd.(Korea)
The public facility is constructed in Jeju island, Korea, where the large-sized experiment of SmartGrid is conducted. SmartGrid, which produces the battery for electronic vehicles made use of the VR system in UC-win/Road to develop an experience drive simulator. This simulator searches the area for battery charging locations while driving in the EV vehicle environment.


HONORABLE JUDGE'S AWARD

Judges
Mr. Hiroo Kasagi, NPO Chiiki Zukuri Kobou
Mr. Fumio Seki, Taisei Corporation
Mr. Sinsuke Kitagawa, Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.
HONORABLE JUDGE'S AWARD  Artistic Award
 Mr. Sinsuke Kitagawa, Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.
"VR simulation for the proposal of the ground facilities construction"
Asunaro Aoki Construction Co., Ltd
The simulation is performed from various types of view point including player, trainer, inhabitant, facility manager, and observer for the construction of the new ground in the university. UC-win/Road is created to share the completed image and provide the exercise environment which meets the surrounding environment.


HONORABLE JUDGE'S AWARD  Regional Construction Award
 Mr. Hiroo Kasagi, NPO Chiiki Zukuri Kobou
"VR simulation of the crosswalk construction planning for the prevention of traffic accidents"
Korea Transportation Safety Authority(Korea)
Analysis of accident locations where 6 fatalities occurred were marked over a period of five years and it was found that the reason behind accident occurrences was due to the distance of crossing, vehicle speed and slope gradient. Several projects were implemented for the safety issues including the construction of pedestrian road. This content was created in VR data to facilitate in the explanatory meeting with the residents. The features of this work include the surveying of location of the street lighting during night time, placement planning and the design considerations of a central island.


HONORABLE JUDGE'S AWARD  Design Award
 Mr. Fumio Seki, Taisei Engineering Co., Ltd
"VR utilization for consensus-building toward landscape formation of design city, Kobe"
Directorate general for Kobe city planning
It is essential to create interest in Kobe city to maintain and build the landscape by covering a variety of landscapes ( sea, slope, and mountain). The exotic city is introduced by the exploration of the city model. The continuous model creation is carried out in the citizen participation workshop. In addition, it is used as a supporting tool for landscape consultation of building design and the regulation induction including height.


NOMINATION AWARD
"VR simulation in disasters using P-SIM(Pedestrian flow simulation)"
Seoul National University (Korea)
The software (P-SIM) which analyses the pedestrian flow and considers alighting from trains in the station is developed and simulated. The data from analysis result is converted into XML file format and then imported into the Micro simulation player through the creation of a simple converter and visualized in UC-win/Road. This piece of work features the rapid speed of human behavior to illustrate various walking speed (running / walking). In addition, the wall was also created using the semi-translucent function.

"VR data utilization and DS driving analysis system"
Taisei Engineering Co., Ltd
The comparison of the driving route and the creation of supplementary documents are performed for Tomei expressway (which was in service since this spring) as well as the new route of Atsugi IC ? Capital central road/Ebina IC. In addition, VR was used for the acquisition of the driving data from DS, output and analysis of the data, measurement of the driver's judgment time, verification and analysis of vehicles.

"BANJAR Water Park"
FUJICON PRIANGAN PERDANA, PT(Indonesia)
"BANJAR Water Park" is the facility to be constructed by BANJAR city, Indonesia. The planning is proceeded as a large-scaled amusement pool for a number of tourists from domestic and overseas. The completed image and the access to the facility are represented in VR in this data. In addition, the image of visitors are playing in the pool can be experienced from the view of the visitors.
Final Results annoucement
(Mr. Fumio Seki)
Awarding ceremony Photo shoot of award winners
For details, see FORUM8 Design Festival 2010 on our website.
BIM&VR : 3D VR Engineering News

Student BIM Contest
FORUM8 will hold the 1st Student BIM&VR Design Contest in 2011. The main theme is BIM&VR and the works which are designed using more than two of FORUM8 software solutions by students can be applied to this contest. It is anticipated that the new use and ideas of BIM&VR would arise through this contest.

Application of the 1st Student BIM &VR Design Contest
Application Period : September 1st 2011 - October 31st [due NLT]
Applicant eligibility : All students (including adults).
Project work which is created before graduation in 2011 as a graduation assignment will be eligible.
Application section : 1.Architecture design
2.Bridge design
How to enter : Please submit your work after registration. The detailed information will be announced later.
Awards : Grand Prix, excellent award, entertainment award, encouragement award, honorable judge award are decided for each section.
Grand Prix: Certificate, trophy, extra prize:500,000 yen of scholarship(for each section)
Prize:Notebook computer, digital camera, printer (provisional)

To see the full text of the article, visit 3D VR Engineering News on Up and Coming web magazine.
Conferences, training and seminars
Overseas Training and Seminars

Seminars in Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul will be held on the following schedule.

Venue:
Shanghai - Shanghai Seminar room (FORUM8 Technology Development(Shanghai) Co., Ltd)

Beijing- TST-VirtualReality (Beijing)
Seoul-FORUM 8 Korean Office


Seminar Date City
UC-win/Road VR   December 8th, 2010 Seoul
December 9th , 2010 Shanghai 
January 7th, 2011 Shanghai 
March 9th, 2011 Seoul 
May 6th, 2011 Shanghai 
UC-win/Road Advanced  December 17th, 2010 Seoul
February 16th, 2011 Seoul
February 24th, 2011 Shanghai
UC-win/Road SDK February 9th, 2011 Seoul
May 17th, 2011 Shanghai
Engineer's Studio(TM),
Engineer's Studio(TM)(2D))
March 24th, 2011 Shanghai
April 13th, 2011 Seoul
VR-Studio(TM) January 26th, 2011 Seoul
April 7th, 2011 Shanghai
UC-win/FRAME(3D) February 2nd, 2011 Seoul
February 17th, 2011 Shanghai
Allplan December 3rd, 2010 Shanghai
January 19th, 2011 Seoul
UC-1 Series Introduction January 12th , 2011 Seoul
EXODUS / SMARTFIRE December 21st, 2010 Seoul
March 3rd, 2011 Shanghai
May 10th, 2011 Seoul
 xpswmm January 13th, 2011 Shanghai
March 16th , 2011 Seoul
OSCADY/TRANSYT  March 10th, 2011 Shanghai
March 23rd, 2011 Seoul
 Design Builder January 27th , 2011 Shanghai
March 30th, 2011 Seoul
Retaining wall design Ver.2 /Temporary sheating work design Ver.2 December 2nd, 2010 Seoul
March 17th , 2011 Shanghai
April 20th, 2011 Seoul
RC Section calculation (Chinese standard) January 20th, 2011 Shanghai
Participation Fee
Participation Fee Free


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