UCL Depthmap

UCL Depthmap is an Open Source application to perform visibility analysis of architectural and urban systems. It takes input in the form of a plan of the system, and is able to construct a map of ‘visually integrated’ locations within it.

In addition, the most recent version of Depthmap now carries out a range of configurational analyses which come under the umbrella term of ‘space syntax’. The analyses available within UCL Depthmap include the original visibility analysis, generation and analysis of axial maps as well as segment analysis and agent-based analysis.

Depthmap was first written for the Silicon Graphics IRIX operating system as a simple isovist processing program in 1998. Since then it has gone through several metamorphoses to reach the current version 4, for the Windows platform. It is designed to run on Windows 2000 and XP operating systems.

Depthmap was created by Alasdair Turner at University College London. Depthmap released to the Open Source community on 2011 with Bartlett’s Space group support and is managed by Tasos Varoudis (t.varoudis|a_t|ucl.ac.uk).

Further Information
The UCL Depthmap Website contains documentation about the software and relevant academic publications.

UCL Depthmap Tutorials
The UCL Depthmap Tutorials demonstrate the basic operation of the software.

Open Source Community
GitHub – Depthmap - Join the Community to report bugs, discuss new features or get cutting-edge updates (ex. beta).

Mailing List
If you are a UCL Depthmap user, you should subscribe to the UCL Depthmap mailing list to exchange experiences with other users.

 

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