“Points of Interest – East Berlin” is a collaboration of free 3D artists and photo­graphers, creating digital models for an inter­active, web based city map of Berlin. The group was launched in 2007 by Lester Balz, Marten Suhr and Andreas Naurath (texturing/art direction/supervision) working in commission of the Berlin city govern­ment. Existing models didn’t meet the high quality demands of a real time rendering engine in the web, especially: precision in dimen­sion, (low) polygon count and texture quality. This time, all buildings were shot on-site by photo­graphers and their exact dimen­sions were taken from land registry material. In 2008, I contributed modelling and texturing of “Humboldt University” and “New National Gallery” to the project. (Photography: Susanne Serwe)

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