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Home Tag: 3D Laser scanning

Tag: 3D Laser scanning

01.12.2011 16:31:47

Here's the BBC News piece on the renovation work that will be hapening to HMS Victory. We carried out the 3D Laser scan survey an supplied accurate elevation drawings of the hull on behalf of BAE systems - further details of our work is here and below is the Youtube video we created from the scan data.





25.11.2011 12:07:00

Back in September we spent some time working with our colleagues on the About Houses project in the Friulian region of Italy. Part of the conference was a vist to the De Corte house in Ovasta, a small hillside village in Ovasta. This house has been owned by the same family since the 16th Century and is a fascinating mix of heritage and modern day living. We spent a day surveying with the laser scanner and panoramic camera, recording as much of the house as possible and below is some of the video we have produced from the laser scan data.





20.11.2011 16:44:37

I will be presenting at the RIVIC Symposium on the 28th November in Bangor, North Wales on our houses project - we've been busy processing the data from the house we scanned in Ovasta, Italy and hope to present some of the data from that work.

Please download the event guide from here 

Hope to see you at the day.





26.07.2011 21:34:18

Here's a short video on some survey work we did for the Royal Commission, recording and underground waterwheel in a lead mine in Mid Wales. Laser scanning is the idea way to record heritage areas like this as it is portable, doesn't require too much light and can provide both academic and general public visualisation of important items. 

Big thanks to Rhydian at ICY Ltd for help with setting up underground and carrying survey kit up the hillside, it may look quite clean and dry in the animation, but I'm still cleaning mud out of all the survey kit!

We've also been busy with engineering projects, from surveying curved roof structures for the new development at Kings Cross station, London, to working with long time partners Parkol Marine in Whitby on modifying fishing vessels for greater efficiency. We've got some interesting projects lined up for the Autumn and we're looking forward to the next meeting of the houses project and finding out what our Italian partners have been up to.


Hwyl

Deri





29.03.2011 17:40:46

We're holding the second project meeting for the houses project in Machynlleth on the 5ht April 2011. As part of this, we will have a one day conference on House heritage, with a diverse range of talks and discussion forums, ranging from Spanish architecture to heritage theatre, via slate miners, lead miners and the internet.

The full conference programme is here





16.02.2011 22:23:26

Big thanks to the team at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales for a great 2 day Digital Past conference in Bodelwyddan, north Wales. Good to meet lots of people with a passion for Heritage and digital documentation.

Off to the Copper day in Swansea next month - sounds interesting for anyone in to industrial archaeology and social history. Makes a change from modelling dive support vessels, trawlers and Dutch barges for 7 days a week straight!

We've a 1 day mini conference on the Houses Project on April 5th, 2011 in Machynlleth for all interested parties. Final running list is still to be confirmed, but we definitely have a talk on the re construction of the Alhambra, Slate Miners housing in North Wales, Digital heritage and the People's collection, so there will be an interesting variety of professional development and local history interest.

If you're interested, please email, more details to follow on the programme.

Thank

Deri





01.01.2011 23:18:38

We've been busy measuring fishing boats for Marine Design International in Glasgow for the past month or so, which has made for interesting travelling with the weather: two cancelled ferries, last minute flights and a delayed flight back from Shetland.

On the heritage side of the business, we're organising a meeting in Machynlleth in april to highlight our European houses project and the breadth of Welsh workers housing we'll be looking at - Copper, Slate and agriculture.

Our associates down at Specialist Models in Cardiff have some photos of the excellent rapid prototype models that they created from our hi-res scanning earlier in the year for the Museum in northern Ireland.

Finally, we're off to do the remaining sections of HMS Victory - more night work





14.11.2010 21:58:36

I've spent the last few days in Ankara, Turkey, discussing a new European Commission project entitled "About Houses". Over the next 2 years we will be recording vernacular architecture in 7 partner countries across Europe and building an online training resource. DJA's role is to provide the technical knowledge on the recording of the houses and benchmark the records against some laser scan surveys. We've only just begun to get the website and content of the project sorted, but if you have an interest in heritage, old buildings, social history or would like to learn more about old houses across Europe, then please get in touch. I'll be blogging more about this project later and we'll be highlighting it to the press in the near future.





17.09.2010 14:32:14

We've had a busy few months on both the marine and survey side. Back in June I spent two days up in the North of Scotland surveying an excavated Broch at Applecross campsite on behalf of the Applecross Archaeological society. Working with Owen Kilbride and the team, we carried out a full set of colour scans and produced a series of high resolution plan view images and some animation of the site. Some of the results are here on Youtube.

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22.01.2010 09:55:22
DJA_NMNIStones_20We've put up a user story on the work we did for the National Museums for Northern Ireland in replicating some carved stone figures from the Iron age.  The user story is here..



21.01.2010 12:04:33

We've added a user story on some of the marine laser scanning project we've been working on over the past few moths to the website. Working with a variety of clients, we've been all over the UK and even managed ot soak up some sun in Malta.

The new user story is here and there should be some more information on some archaeological work we did last year coming soon.





17.08.2009 21:24:08

Holly Lodge School, Smethwick, Birmingham, UK.

HollyLodge_03At short notice, we were asked to supply a basic model of an entire school campus to act as the starting point for some animation and visualisation images for a re-modelling exercise. Tasked with the project on Thursday afternoon, we completed the bulk of the 3D laser scanning over the weekend, to avoid interrupting classes and minimising health and safety issues. Some 38,000m2 of site was covered, using the longer range Trimble to pick off larger facades and working with the faster Faro scanner to pick up the more complex areas.

This was processed using Pointools / Rhino, creating accurate geometry and then applying orthographic texture maps in Maya. This model was supplied to the clients some 5 days after being given the project (no, we didn't sleep much!). We also supplied a full photographic survey used to map on to our orthographic roughs to add greater detail to the model for rendering.

The video we created from the pointcloud and the base model is here.. and the PDF is here..





17.08.2009 20:53:08

TugScanning_01The latest video we've added to our YouTube channel is about some work we did for a team of Naval Architects. Approached by a client to transform a 1950's US Navy tug in to stylish pleasure yacht, the team required an accurate model of the existing hull as a starting point. During a very chilly day in late November, the vessel was loaded on to Parkol Engineering's floating drydock in Whitby, Norh Yorkshire and lifted out of the water. A quick wash to clean the worst of the detritus from the hull and we were able to get in to the dock an perform a series of scans, using the Faro LS880, capturing the hull and superstructure before the vessel was refloated. The scan data was then used to model the hull shape and supply both 2D lines and a 3D IGES hull model, which we used as the basis to design a hull section that faired in with minimum disruption to the existing hull.

The video is here.. and the PDF version of the user story is here..





15.08.2009 10:20:13

This animation shows some of the data we collected on a local project. As it is off the beaten track and was accessible only by foot or tractor (see below!) it's a great place to try out new kit and minimise the amount of equipment needed to do a scan job.

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DJA_scanmobile02_smallThe cottage is now undergoing renovation - once it's completed, we'll go back and scan it again to give a comparison.

The video is here...





14.08.2009 22:52:54

That's the first of the YouTube videos up - it's some animations through the pointclouds we collected over a couple of days at Drax power station in Yorkshire on behalf of Alstom Power. All of this data was captured with the Faro LS880, working off the crane beams and topsides of the structure over a period of 2 days. The scans were tied together using a Total station and a set of spherical targets. Even with downsampling, the full data set in Pointools comes to some 550 million point, so not all of it is displayed in the video.

Video is here....

The PDF user story to go with this is here..





14.08.2009 22:02:16

3D Laser scanning videos and user stories.

We've been busy producing some animated flyby's using Pointools' excellent animation wizard to illustrate the kind of information we can record with our range of laser scanners. As we have been involved with everything from power stations, through fishing vessels to 16th century farm houses and Roman sarcophagii, we'll be putting up a series of short video's on our new YouTube channel. Hopefully it will give a flavour of what we can supply. For further details on each of the projects, see the corresponding user stories here...

The videos are available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/derijonesassoc

The power station scanning project video is  here..., more to follow in a short while!