Archive for May 1st, 2006





Traveling Exhibit of EarthWorks virtual reconstructions

May 1st, 2006 | By Sue

Continuing my theme today of virtual reconstructions of cultural and archaeological resources, I just saw a press release on ScienceDaily that EarthWorks, a ten-year-old project to virtually reconstruct Native American mound and earthwork sites in the Ohio River Valley, has put together a traveling exhibit that will include some of its reconstructions, along with associated [...]



ArcSketch for ArcGIS

May 1st, 2006 | By Jesse

ESRI has released a new free extension ArcSketch for ArcGIS for use in ArcMap. The ArcSketch extension seems similar to the Tablet extension but with a little more under the hood and perhaps easier to deal with the drawing layers. I hope to get a chance to play with it tonight after I [...]



Preserving China’s past in digital form

May 1st, 2006 | By Sue

3PointD linked to this article from CRIEnglish.com about several projects under way to digitially recreate a number of China’s endangered or destroyed cultural resources. Among the projects are stuctures at Wudang Mountain, Yuxu Palace, and a number of sites in the Three Gorges area, where the filling of the huge reservoir behind the Three Gorges [...]