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Visualization of historic
Landscapes
Patrick J. Reynolds
A graduate of the Copperstown Graduate Program in museum studies, Patrick
Reynolds has over 15 years of experience in working with museums and historic
sites. He came to SketchUp in 2007 as a tool for use in exhibit design, education,
and preservation of historic sites.
Project
: Modeling of the vanished town of Byng Inlet
Tools
: SketchUp 7, Google Earth, historic maps, photographs
This project was started by a simple connection made through the Internet. A
resident of a remote town in Ontario posted the following note on the Google
SketchUp Help Discussion Group: “Hey Folks, I am interested in recreating a
northern Ontario lumbering town inside a computer using various source
materials. Can SketchUp do this?” I responded volunteering my time for the
project so that the “kids living there can see what the town looked like.” After a
series of e-mails and trawling the Internet for historic photographs and maps,
we indeed proved that SketchUp “can do this.” In fact, it is the built-in tools of
SketchUp that make it ideally suited to this task.
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