To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: HAL: “That’s a very nice rendering, Dave…” Covering the basic premise of rendering and animation does little to explain what good it can do for us. But the visions of scientists and innovators are …
Visualization: MODO-tion
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: Wiki defines animation as, “the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement.” The information technology industry, which has widely been used as an entertainment tool, is extensively used …
Visualization: “Render-me-Baker”
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: It is becoming almost impossible to tell what is visually real or computer graphic (CG) generated today. This is made possible by incredible advances in both hardware and software to process millions of pixels …
Visualiz(s)ation: Sleepless Virtual Sheep
Tyrell: How many questions?Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.Tyrell: It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn’t it?Deckard: She doesn’t know. -Blade Runner- Which is real? To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: I would’ve said both are artificial. But one is …
Digital Legacy – The Future of Our History
Two sites have been documented in Oregon based on Restore Oregon’s “Most Endangered Places” list. The Petersen Rock Gardens… …and now, the Rivoli Theater. Both sites had their technical challenges. Petersen’s was just a very large site; 4 acres of terrestrial …
Digital Legacy – Rivoli Documented: ?? To Go
We completed the 3D documentation of the Rivoli Theater in Pendleton, Oregon. This was no easy task but was well worth the effort. This historical vaudeville theater is an absolute gem of history. It’s clear from its design that modern architecture has changed its …
Digital Legacy – We Came, We Saw…We’re Still Going
I can still remember that day we started scanning this theater in an attempt to save it – that day was abuzz with people helping to clean out and help out with scanning at the Rivoli Theater in Pendleton, Oregon. …
Digital Legacy – The Buzz has Begun, Cowboy Style
A few years ago, I was approached by the Director of the Rivoli Theater Restoration Coalition from Pendleton, Oregon. He had seen a few of the point cloud visualizations our team put together for the Petersen Rock Garden in Redmond, Oregon, and decidedly told …
Digital Legacy – Analytics II: The Legacy Factor
The question has arisen with historical preservationists on whether anything I provide – video, laser scans, or other such data that I believe will be built to last – will have longevity. Will it, they may ask, be outdated within the …
Digital Legacy – Analytics: Post-retirement
Today I spoke with a person in the engineering industry who saw some of our laser scan data for the first time via a Matterport model of Timberline Lodge in Mt. Hood, Oregon. Their response was to the tune, “Well, …