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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: wolfnowl on June 03, 2009, 01:49:30 am

Title: CyArk
Post by: wolfnowl on June 03, 2009, 01:49:30 am

Hi Folks:

Putting this in the Coffee Corner because to me it's interesting but one could easily argue that it's not photography.  Basically they're using a rapid scan laser system to mark and record X/Y/Z coordinates on different sites, from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy to the Mayan temple of Tikal in Guatemala.  After collecting the information they can create '3-D' animations of the site, including flyovers, section by section viewing, etc.  Neat stuff, anyway.

Mike.

http://archive.cyark.org/ (http://archive.cyark.org/)

Title: CyArk
Post by: bill t. on June 03, 2009, 03:56:50 pm

To me that's art.  And no need to make up stuff about how technology has expanded our concept of art...that's art in the grand classic tradition of Leonardo da Vinci and others who saw no particular boundary between science and art.