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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

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

Tags: 3D Laser scanning | Marine design | Marine | hull surveying | SLS | rapid prototyping | archaeological | abouthouses.eu

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

We'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..

Tags: 3D Laser scanning | Heritage | rapid prototyping | SLS | archaeological