Tom Goskar – Archaeologist

Research-led 3D scanning, surface enhancement, audio restoration and AI for heritage

Tag: Penzance

  • Point Cloud Penzance – the town in 3D

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    Using 3D data (LiDAR) collected by the Environment Agency through the Government Open Data initiative I have created an interactive 3D model of the town centre of Penzance, Cornwall. It’s a very detailed model, with a measurement point every 50cm or so across the entire town. There are 12.9 million vertices (points) in this model. You…

  • My Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) Installation – Part 1

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    NB: This post is from 2013, kept here for archival purposes. As of 2026 I still use the same multiport ONT and my connection is now with Zen. However, I have been told my connection cannot reach speeds higher than 500Mbps. Nobody seems to know why… When I first moved to Penzance in January 2012,…

  • A Medieval Discovery at Gulval Church, Cornwall

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    [Update] This work has now been published with Prof. Michelle Brown in British Archaeology. Just to the left of the south porch of Gulval Church, near Penzance in Cornwall, lies a large block of granite. I first came across it on a visit to the churchyard in 2012. However, it really piqued my interest a…

  • Open Shed – a new hackspace in Penzance

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    [Update May 2014] Sadly Open Shed closed in May 2014 due to the inability to grow membership enough to meet costs.   For the last six weeks I have been doing something a little bit different. From a friend, I heard that a small group of people were setting up a hackspace to provide a place…