Build a CityJSON 2.0 Material and Texture Appearance Auditor
Inspect 3D city models in CityJSON 2.0 format to verify surface material and texture definitions. Flag missing material mapping indices and calculate surface solar reflectance values for urban cooling studies.
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Inspect 3D city models in CityJSON 2.0 format to verify surface material and texture definitions. Flag missing material mapping indices and calculate surface solar reflectance values for urban cooling studies.
Urban digital twin specialist
Parse CityJSON 2.0 Appearance objects containing materials and textures.
Verify material mapping arrays across CityObject surface boundaries.
Extract solar reflectance and thermal emissivity values from assigned surface materials.
Generate a diagnostic report flagging untextured surfaces and albedo inconsistencies.
Web 3D surface inspector displaying polygon material shaders and reflectance heatmaps.
Download CityJSON files with appearance definitions from the 3DCityDB sample repository or construct mock CityJSON appearance objects. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
CityJSON Implements CityJSON Section 1 & Section 6 Appearance Object specifications for surface textures and materials.
haystack, pydantic, fastapi. Haystack coordinates multi-step data pipelines and property document retrieval across urban material libraries. Hosted general LLM capable of evaluating JSON data structures and physical surface material properties.
Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.
Verifies that material indices in boundary surfaces map to declared appearance materials.
Calculates area-weighted mean surface albedo for audited building envelopes.
Flags geometries referencing non-existent material identifiers.
```json [ { "input": { "appearance": { "materials": [ { "name": "CoolRoofMembrane", "diffuseColor": [ 0.9, 0.9, 0.9 ], "solar_reflectance": 0.82 } ] }, "building_surface": { "id": "Roof-A1", "material_index": 0, "area_sqm": 250 } }, "expected_output": { "surface_id": "Roof-A1", "material_name": "CoolRoofMembrane", "solar_reflectance": 0.82, "status": "VALID", "errors": [] } }, { "input": { "appearance": { "materials": [ { "name": "DarkAsphaltShingle", "diffuseColor": [ 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 ], "solar_reflectance": 0.15 } ] }, "building_surface": { "id": "Roof-B2", "material_index": 4, "area_sqm": 120 } }, "expected_output": { "surface_id": "Roof-B2", "material_name": null, "solar_reflectance": null, "status": "INDEX_ERROR", "errors": [ "Material index 4 out of bounds for appearance array of length 1" ] } } ] ```
Performs read-only validation of municipal 3D models without impacting live municipal databases. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Performs read-only validation of municipal 3D models without impacting live municipal databases. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Verifies that material indices in boundary surfaces map to declared appearance materials. Calculates area-weighted mean surface albedo for audited building envelopes. Flags geometries referencing non-existent material identifiers.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
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Complete workflow
Parse CityJSON 2.0 Appearance objects containing materials and textures. Verify material mapping arrays across CityObject surface boundaries. Extract solar reflectance and thermal emissivity values from assigned surface materials. Generate a diagnostic report flagging untextured surfaces and albedo inconsistencies.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Verifies that material indices in boundary surfaces map to declared appearance materials. Calculates area-weighted mean surface albedo for audited building envelopes. Flags geometries referencing non-existent material identifiers.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Web 3D surface inspector displaying polygon material shaders and reflectance heatmaps.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Performs read-only validation of municipal 3D models without impacting live municipal databases.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Parse CityJSON 2.0 Appearance objects containing materials and textures.
Verify material mapping arrays across CityObject surface boundaries.
Extract solar reflectance and thermal emissivity values from assigned surface materials.
Generate a diagnostic report flagging untextured surfaces and albedo inconsistencies.
Reference links and supporting material
Download CityJSON files with appearance definitions from the 3DCityDB sample repository or construct mock CityJSON appearance objects. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
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- Parse CityJSON 2.0 Appearance objects containing materials and textures. Verify material mapping arrays acr...
- Verifies that material indices in boundary surfaces map to declared appearance materials. Calculates area-w...
- Web 3D surface inspector displaying polygon material shaders and reflectance heatmaps.
- 2 public reference cases
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- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
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