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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.

Tags: 3D Laser scanning | Heritage | visualisation | hull surveying | abouthouses.eu | RCAHMW

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.

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Tags: RCAHMW | archaeological | visualisation | Industrial | Heritage | Pointools | Animation | 3D Laser scanning

The team at Pointools have been spreading the word about the work we did on HMS Victory using their excellent software. See the American Surveyor website for an example.

Tags: Pointools | Animation | Marine design | Heritage | visualisation | hull surveying

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.

Tags: 3D Laser scanning | Animation | Pointools | Heritage | visualisation | archaeological

Holly Lodge School, Smethwick, Birmingham, UK.

At 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..

Tags: Architecture | visualisation | Animation | 3D Laser scanning

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.

The 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...

Tags: Heritage | visualisation | Pointools | Animation | 3D Laser scanning

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..

Tags: visualisation | Industrial | Pointools | 3D Laser scanning