The 3D art behind America's great engineering projects [3D Graphics and models]
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[CNET]
On Monday, the park service’s Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Autodesk and kubit will announce the technological process of documenting these structures, a process that resulted in a broad collection of 3D imagery of projects like the Space Shuttle Discovery, as well as NASA launching pads, famous bridges, and more. The imagery was used to generate what are known as “point clouds” of data that, together, show a 3D version of the object.
Based on the point cloud image, HAER built detailed 3D models and 2D drawings of many of the country’s engineering feats, and now the HAER archives will be housed at the Library of Congress.
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