Author: Tom Goskar
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On Sketchfab and Cultural Heritage
When I first started out with learning 3D visualisation techniques and software back in 2001 I longed for a way to share my models online. In the early days there was VRML and other, proprietary, methods (Superscape, Shockwave 3D, etc) but these required either big browser plugins with limited capabilities or in the case of VRML,…
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Animal Headed Saints
Today sees the release of the January/February 2016 edition of British Archaeology. It features an article by Prof Michelle Brown and I on the early medieval cross-base at Gulval Church and its unusual depictions of the Four Evangelists. Whilst my copy of the magazine has yet to be delivered the story has been picked up…
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Announcing cornishmemory.com – a new resource for Cornwall’s audio-visual heritage
Since November 2014 some of my time has been spent working with Azook CIC, a “not-for-profit social enterprise dedicated to growing cultural confidence amongst Cornish communities by connecting people with their cultural heritage”. Initially working on the MemoryFish project looking at fishing heritage in Cornwall, I began to help them rebuild cornishmemory.com so that it would have…
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Neolithic Breton-Style Rock Art at Boscawen-ûn Stone Circle
Today members of the Cornwall Archaeological Society will have received copies of the latest newsletter. I didn’t expect to be featured on the front page! Below is the text from the newsletter which I wrote after an intensive couple of days research in the Society of Antiquaries library. A Reinterpretation of the Rock Art at Boscawen-ûn…
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A busy summer
I haven’t blogged since March, and since I have some data processing in the background and can do little else while I wait, I thought I’d post a little update. I have been working for most of the week with Azook, rebuilding cornishmemory.com, the web front-end to their Re:collect digital archive of historic photographs, films…
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Interactive 3D Models on Sketchfab
Publishing 3D models online used to be a pain. It always relied upon plugins, and the results could never be very detailed. Sketchfab has changed all of that, and made publishing beautifully detailed 3D models a breeze. You could use the analogy that Sketchfab is a kind of YouTube for 3D models. It is also…
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Recording St Piran’s Oratory – 3D model and animation
I have now completed my recent work on St Piran’s Oratory on behalf of St Piran Trust and Cornwall Archaeological Unit. It was a challenging task requiring a huge amount of computer resources and time, with colleagues at Archaeovision helping when my computer broke down, but I am pleased with the results. Here is a short…
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Medieval Chapel Killed My Laptop
Since November I have been working on 3D capture data from St Piran’s Oratory. It has taken a long time to process the 3D photogrammetry data as it is a hugely complex task to record every stone. This process caused the untimely demise of my 5 year old MacBook Pro, which was struggling anyway. It’s…
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It’s All About The Photos
It’s been a busy time for me recently, with much of my recent work focussing upon historic photographs and photogrammetry. I have been working with the Morrab Library in Penzance to build a digitisation facility so that they may begin, with a volunteer workforce, to scan their wonderful collection of historic photographs. There are about…
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Penzance’s Midwinter Customs – Montol 2014
Plans for the 2014 Montol celebrations here in Penzance are well underway. This year it is being run by the Cornish Culture Association who have organised a fantastic and packed programme of events on Sunday 21st December. The concept of an organised community celebration on one day called Montol is a modern one. However, many…