A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape
Posted by Tom Goskar | Filed under 3D, Archaeology, Stonehenge
Over the past few months I’ve been hard at work producing an animation of the Environment Agency LIDAR survey of the Stonehenge World Heritage site. The resulting video is currently playing on an HD plasma screen in the “Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, 1707–2007” exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.
Read more about the Stonehenge landscape animation over a the Wessex Archaeology Computing blog.
A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape from Wessex Archaeology on Vimeo.
For the more technical minded people, the underlying DEM (Digital Elevation Model) is 8000×8000 at a resolution of 1m. You can view the video in HD over at Vimeo.
3 Responses to “A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape”
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Alun Says:
November 16th, 2007 at 12:11 pmStunning.
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Bright Meadow » Sunday Roast: Not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable Says:
November 18th, 2007 at 3:02 pm[...] as an impromptu tour guide. So bless Tom for slaving over a hot processor and bringing us this virtual rendering of the landscape. (As an aside, there’s one particular part of the rendering where you look down the cursus [...]
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Exhibition in Salisbury - Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 at Past Thinking Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm[...] “Lasers and Light”, it contains some new footage generated from the Stonehenge LiDAR dataset, close-range laser scans of some bones (and skull) from the Amesbury Archer, and some laser [...]
