http://www.metafilter.com/tags/surveyors Posts tagged with 'surveyors' at MetaFilter. Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:09:09 -0800 Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:09:09 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/31651/World%2DHeritage%2DDigitzation%2Dprojects Ben Kacyras is the inventor of the portable <a href="http://www.cyra.com/products/products.html">Cyrax 3D scanning camera</a> traditionally used by surveyors for quickly creating "surgical exact" 3D models of large structures. Ben has <a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8128125.htm">set a goal to scan</a> every <a href="http://whc.unesco.org/heritage.htm">World Heritage Site</a> on Earth and make it available online so that if anything were to happen to a site, an exact replica could be re-built. Example <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/start.html?pg=16">Cyrax pictures</a>. More <a href="http://www.3dcgi.com/cooltech/cameras/cameras.htm">3D Camera links</a> and <a href="http://www.vihap3d.org/news.html">other</a> <a href="http://klingon.iupucs.iupui.edu/research/heritage.html">World</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/26304">Heritage Digitization</a> efforts. </a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31651 Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:09:09 -0800 3D benkacyras camera cyrax digitization scanning surveyors worldheritagesite stbalbach