Archaeoptics have just announced the completion of their project to 3D laser scan one of the neolithic flint mines at Grimes Graves in Norfolk, UK.
They scanned the entire mine, which is roughly the shape of a tree root system, at a resolution of 1mm, resulting in a dataset of 1.1 Billion measurements (vertices). That’s 2.2 (US) Billion real polygons - a really huge dataset. I’m looking forward to seeing what the results look like!
From the resulting 3D model, archaeologists will have a detailed record of the mine for archive, as well as being able to take accurate measurements, cross sections and use it for virtual tours where public access is not possible for safety reasons.
Find our more about Grimes Graves.
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I recently bought a copy of RapidWeaver by Realmac Software to use for a number of mini websites which will be delivered on CD.
I first looked at it some time ago (I think it was at version 2.x) and was deeply unimpressed - it lacked style, usability, and was too limiting for websites beyond a basic “Hello World” personal website. Version 3.1 arrived, and, well, what a change. RapidWeaver, once you get used to the semi-WYSIWYG editor (you can’t see any of your site navigation or design in the editor, only basic text styling), and discover the page inspector, you’ve actually got a lovely website creation tool.
RapidWeaver really isn’t software you would use to design a site from scratch, with your own design, but if you would like to make an elegant site based on well designed templates, then RapidWeaver is a good choice. It’s worth noting that you are able to customise the supplied themes if you have the know-how (which is fortunate for me, as I do - if you don’t you’ll have to use the templates as-is).
Continue reading ‘Rapidweaver 3.2 beta’
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On Thursday 20th October 2005, Wessex Archaeology will oversee the relocation of an historic barn. But rather than being painstakingly disassembled timber by timber, it is to be lifted in one go by a huge crane, from its original location to its new home.
The barn should be hanging about in the air for about half an hour as it is slowly moved. It will be filmed, and once edited, will be posted on the website.
All information about the project is available on the Wessex Archaeology News Blog.
[UPDATE] The lift was cancelled due to technical difficulties…
[UPDATE - 2nd Novermber 2005] The lift was successfully completed today (photo).
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Whilst fishing through my spam to check for messages which might have been wrongly marked as junk, I came across this little gem. Whilst reading it, think of it being delivered by a male Shakespearean actor with a deep and powerful voice, whilst wearing a wide-brimmed hat covered in bananas:
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All I am responsible for is the punctuation, and capitalisation of each line.
Surrealist performance spam poetry anyone?
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I have been wanting to incorporate my Flickr photos on this blog for some time now, but have never found a satisfactory way of doing this so far. There’s always been lots of under-the-bonnet fiddling to do, and as I’m not using Apache on Linux, most of the methods I’ve tried haven’t worked out (that’s also why I don’t have nice friendly URIs for my posts).
Today, however, I came across a wonderful plugin called FAlbum by Elijah Cornell. It works wonderfully, and you can see how well it integrates by visiting my new photo page. Installing it was simple and configuration is done within the WordPress admin interface.
Thanks Elijah!
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