October 12, 2023

Leader-Telegram: Historians study dugout canoe at Phillips hardware store

Leader-Telegram: Historians study dugout canoe at Phillips hardware store . “Sissel Schroeder, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist for the Wisconsin Historical Society, came to see the canoe as part of their long-term study of dugout canoes around the state…. Schroeder said the study began with canoes at museums, historical societies and libraries around Wisconsin. The two historians are now focusing on more than 80 dugout canoes known to be in private hands around the state.”

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May 17, 2023

‘She has stories to tell’: digital scan of Titanic wreck could reveal its secrets (The Guardian)

The Guardian: ‘She has stories to tell’: digital scan of Titanic wreck could reveal its secrets. “The unique 3D view of the entire vessel, seen as if the water has been drained away, could reveal fresh clues about how she came to sink on her maiden voyage in 1912. The scans also preserve a “digital twin” of the ship, which is rapidly being destroyed by iron-eating bacteria, salt corrosion and deep ocean currents.”

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May 1, 2023

University of Alabama: UA-Created Digital Exhibition of Alabama Artist Publicly Available

University of Alabama: UA-Created Digital Exhibition of Alabama Artist Publicly Available. “[Joe] Minter, a found-object artist, tells the story of his life, and a cultural movement, in a collection he calls ‘African Village in America’ built on nearly 1 acre around his home in Birmingham, Alabama. UA experts in geographic imaging, art curation, digital cataloguing and art history created a digital rendering to offer immediate access to the artist’s site-specific presentation of found-object sculptures for both scholars and the public, who previously could only experience the monumental environment by visiting in person.”

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March 26, 2023

WUSF: USF researchers create 3D models and virtual tours honoring the legacy of President Jimmy Carter

WUSF: USF researchers create 3D models and virtual tours honoring the legacy of President Jimmy Carter. “The researchers were tasked by the NPS to digitally scan and preserve furniture items that the 39th president built himself. They also created virtual tours of his boyhood home, farm, and depot that served as his campaign headquarters in 1975. The house in Plains where Carter and his wife Rosalynn currently live will eventually be included in the tour as well.”

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February 10, 2023

The 5 Best 3D Scanner Apps for Android: Turn Real Objects Into Digital Models (MakeUseOf)

MakeUseOf: The 5 Best 3D Scanner Apps for Android: Turn Real Objects Into Digital Models . “Have you ever wanted to turn real objects into digital models for use in your 3D design work? It can be hard to find the right tools for photogrammetry. Luckily, there are a few 3D scanning apps for Android devices that make it easy to capture object data. Here, we’ll show you the best apps out there—each with its own strengths and use cases—that will make it easier than ever to create your next awesome product design.”

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December 15, 2022

WMAY: ALPLM Now Offering 3D Online Renderings Of Artifacts

WMAY: ALPLM Now Offering 3D Online Renderings Of Artifacts. “It’s a new way to get an up-close look at dozens of artifacts in the collection of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The library has now released an online 3-D gallery of around 100 different items, allowing you to get a full 360-degree view of the items, using your mouse to rotate the image and zoom in and out.”

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December 9, 2022

University of Washington: UW brings field geology to students with ‘Virtual Field Geology’

University of Washington: UW brings field geology to students with ‘Virtual Field Geology’. “Juliet Crider, a UW associate professor of Earth and space sciences, first got a grant from the National Science Foundation to send a former graduate student and a drone to photograph an iconic Pennsylvania geological site and pilot a new approach to field geology. Her team has now completed a virtual field visit to that site, the Whaleback anticline, where decades of coal mining have exposed 300-million-year-old folds in the bedrock.”

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November 26, 2022

University of Calgary: Project digitally preserves former Indian residential schools in Alberta

University of Calgary: Project digitally preserves former Indian residential schools in Alberta. “Of all the ghosts that weighed heavily on the shoulders of Brendon Many Bears as he worked his way with a 3D laser scanner across every inch of Old Sun Community College, it was those he encountered in the former coal closet that sat the most horrifically in the pit of his stomach. The tiny room in the former Old Sun Indian Residential School, on Siksika Nation in southwest Alberta, was easy to miss, hidden away behind a metal door in the building’s boiler room.”

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November 25, 2022

The National: How virtual reality is being used to recreate Iraq’s destroyed heritage

The National: How virtual reality is being used to recreate Iraq’s destroyed heritage. “The new Mosul Heritage Museum in Iraq is inviting people to experience its greatest historical sites — in virtual reality…. Through painstaking documentation, computer technology and virtual-reality artistry, Qaf Lab, an innovation hub in Mosul that supports Iraqi entrepreneurs, has reconstructed five heritage sites destroyed or damaged by ISIS during their three-year occupation of Mosul from 2014.”

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