A $100,000 Knight Foundation grant gave Vizcaya the opportunity to turn years of interest in 3D documentation into a practical visitor-experience project. Working with university and technology partners, the initiative combined photogrammetry, laser scanning, 3D printing, kiosks, and virtual experiences to interpret spaces visitors could not physically access. The project illustrates how emerging technology becomes useful when preservation, interpretation, institutional support, and external partnerships are designed together.
Tag Archives: 3D Documentation
Posts about 3D documentation, laser scanning, photogrammetry, and digital recording for cultural heritage and historic sites.
A 3D Documentation primer for cultural and historic sites
This primer introduces laser scanning and photogrammetry as increasingly practical tools for documenting cultural sites and objects in three dimensions. It explains how the technologies work, where their strengths and limitations differ, and how preservation data can also support interpretation through virtual experiences and interactive displays. The post marks an important convergence: documentation technology originally developed for accuracy and conservation beginning to serve public access and storytelling as well.
Dale Kronkright on Shaping Georgia O’Keeffe’s Digital Image
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, conservator Dale Kronkright helped test computational imaging technologies while making the research process visible to the public through digital media. This conversation explores the Georgia O’Keeffe Imaging Project as both a conservation experiment and a communications strategy: sophisticated documentation technologies paired with relatively simple online storytelling to connect conservation research, collections, and audiences.
Picturing preservation tech online with Cultural Heritage Imaging
Cultural Heritage Imaging explores how photography and computational imaging can become tools for preservation research, documentation, and public understanding rather than simply illustration. The conversation looks at emerging methods for recording cultural resources and at the challenge of explaining highly technical work online, connecting preservation technology with a broader question that still matters: how do we make specialized knowledge visible and useful without oversimplifying it?
3D Scanning, Rome Reborn and Virtual Ancient Worlds on Google Earth
Bernard Frischer discusses Rome Reborn, 3D modeling, virtual heritage, born-digital scholarship, Google Earth, and the long-term preservation and public use of complex digital cultural heritage.
3D Digital Rock Art Documentation and Preservation
Carla Schroer discusses 3D documentation, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, photogrammetry, training, and the challenge of moving digital heritage tools from specialist research into everyday preservation practice.