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Week Twelve: Conclusions & Next Steps
This week was my week heading to BVMC during the summer semester. Rather than take additional photography or modeling this week, I just worked on continuing to process existing files while at home. However, I still went over to BVMC for one last in-semester visit. I spent most of my time there this week talking…
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Week Eleven: Putting a (nurse’s) Cap on Things
This was our last regular week of scanning and digitizing at BVMC, as the summer semester is rapidly coming to a close. This week we scanned (or attempted to scan) three objects. A World War II nurses cap, a fullsize mannequin’s torso and head wearing an army field jacket, and a vintage Japanese sake bottle.…
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Week 10 – Trench Art and Star Wars
This week was much the same as the previous, as I brought the Artec Spider back to BVMC. We worked mostly with two objects, a new, smaller piece of trench art and a very unusual helmet. For the piece of trench art, we tried modeling it two different ways – via Kiri Engine and via…
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Week Nine – Artec Spider, Revisiting a Canteen, and a Soviet Hat
This week, I brought the Artec Spider 3Dscanner to the BVMC to try comparison with using an actual 3d scanner compared to using photogrammetry. The week started with a trip to CHDR to get familiar with the scanner and its processes, as well as fill out some paperwork to be authorized to bring it off…
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Week Seven – a Brick, Some Tooth Powder, Helmets, and Meeting Spaces.
This week, we were back at BVMC. We photographed a handful of objects this week: a heavily painted World War I helmet, some toothpowder, a tiny chessboard, a more modern US Army helmet, a World War II canteen, and a brick. For some of the objects, we did traditional photography and Agisoft Metashapebased photogrammetry as…
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Week Five
The week started earlier, with my attending some work in Greenwood Cemetery doing ground penetrating radar on Saturday morning. As stated last week, this mostly served as a convenient excuse to bump into some folks from CHDR to start a conversation about getting some hands on experience with their Artec 3d Scanners. This coming Tuesday…
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Week Four
This week was a bit slower for me. I had prearranged with both Trent & folks at the BVMC that I would be unable to visit the site this week. On Wednesday, we closed on our house & earlier in the week I a family member had major surgery, both of which diverted significant attention.…
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Week 3 (30 May, 2025)
This week, Trent and I went to the BVMC and spent time moving through the space and taking note of the types of items which we think would be good candidates for digitization. There are a mix of several criteria which I need to consider when choosing these items. First, they should be things that…
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Week 2
May 23 This week, we met a few more folks around the Brevard Veterans Memorial Center including their curator, Ed Pingston. Given my plan to digitize many of the museum’s objects, it was of course nice to finally connect with the curator. For this week, we worked to photograph many of the objects out in…
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HIS6942 – Week One
HIS6942 – Week One: An Introduction Over the course of 2025 Summer Term C (roughly mid-May through early August) I am working with the Brevard Veterans Memorial Center as a summer internship for credit toward my coursework in UCF’s Texts & Technology PhD program. My research interests include practices of public history, particularly ways in…
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