Reconstructing spaces

(Guest: Dr. Mark Tovey, “Converging sources for re-constructing period buildings”)

Read

• Richard White, “What Is Spatial History?” The Spatial History Project (2010)
• Leung, “Life Murder and Bootleggers: Every House Tells a Story,” Toronto Globe and Mail (19 October 2007)
• Arnoud de Boer, Processing old maps and drawings to create virtual historic landscapes
• Dylla, Kimberly, Bernard Frischer et al., 2010. “Rome Reborn 2.0: A Case Study of Virtual City Reconstruction Using Procedural Modeling Techniques,” in CAA 2009. Making History Interactive. 37th Proceedings of the CAA Conference March 22-26, 2009, Williamsburg, Virginia (Archaeopress: Oxford, 2010) 62-66. View Document (.pdf)

Blog

• Miriam Posner “How did they make that?“
• Levin and Debevec Rouen Revisited and exhibit
• Kees Kaldenbach and the ID-Studiolab, Walking With Vermeer, and description
• Kaldenbach, Johannes Vermeer & 17th Century life in Delft
• Building The Igluryuaq Computer Model
• Smithsonian panoramas
• Gallery of US National Park’s Bird’s Eye Views
• Virtual Newcastle 1800-1830

Watch (everyone)

• Rebuilding the entire world in 3D? Google Maps: The many dimensions of a modern map
• Rome Reborn, with Bernard Frischer
• Frischer and Zucker, A Tour through Ancient Rome in 320 C.E.
• BBC, How 3D imaging is helping preserve history

Play

• Trimble SketchUp
• Moi

Download

• Georeferenced Garrison Maps and Plan [Dropbox]
• MapTiler