In fact, depending on the geometry of building walls and streets, it's possible that someone 10 feet from the blast may have greater injury than someone standing just three feet away, noted Goldstein.
To do that, accurate individual geometries of buildings needed to be put in place, in order to allow correct identification when geo-referencing and establishing links to the cadastral and other Database information sources.
These were implemented to automatically build the 3D geometry of each building from the footprint and respective geometric attributes (building height, roof type), and to provide each building with an appearance, which could vary between actual texture, symbolic colored texture, or damage realistic texture, according to the type of possible question addressed by the model (Fig. 2).
Piero della Francesca would have approved of the pristine geometry of the buildings.
The powerful and brilliantly simplified geometry of his buildings held little appeal for the following generations, however, and wholesale demolitions and vandalism during the 19th century left only a handful of his works still standing.
Back on the city streets, the "combinatorics of sidewalk and subway" and the "forbidden geometry" of apartment buildings yield to reality: "from arabesque and pentacle and hexagon" we arrive, at last, at the "3-D" Airbnbs — actual, habitable versions of the places we imagined or glimpsed on a screen.
The complex geometry of the buildings makes the creation of a complete finite element model difficult.
The point clouds generated and the subsequent mosaics (data fusion of different clouds) contain millions of points with a heterogeneous density that define the 3D geometry of the buildings.
Furthermore, it is found that the geometry of the buildings significantly influences the conditions necessary to initiate upward leaders and, therefore, the location of the most likely strike points.
"We're stuck with the geometry of the building that's under construction right now".
