To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness, Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -Aldous Huxley Through our intention to create dialog around the subject of 3D technologies, some interesting feedback has come our way. …
Designing Contribution: Froebel’s Gifts
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness, Every child brings with him into the world the natural disposition to see correctly what is before him, or, in other words, the truth. If things are shown to him in their connection, his …
Visualization: Extractions
Taking pictures is just the beginning of today’s data sets. People want to mine visualizations for all they’re worth. It is not enough in the AEC world to simply have a visual representation of infrastructure. They want to have geometry …
Visualization: Loving the Journey – A Path to Mastery
To My Dearest Collective Human Consciousness: At the writing of this, for the past several weeks, we’ve been working a ton of hours – There were tough deadlines and several unexpected glitches with conversion software. I’ve come to accept this …
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: 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, …
Digital Legacy – Pretty, Shiny Collections: DO NOT TOUCH
During the excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, Egyptologist, Howard Carter had in mind methods he would employ to document the tomb. A skilled artist in his own right, he would set out to try and draw what he saw. Perhaps few could have held …
Reclaiming Human Habitat in the Gila River Reservation, Arizona – Part 2 of 3
In my last article, I spoke with Phil Allsopp of Transpolis Global, Inc. about their efforts to bring sustainable design and economic opportunity to the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. This is a continuance of that interview. Please note …
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