Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Stonehenge Landscape in 3D | Wessex Archaeology

The Stonehenge Landscape in 3D | Wessex Archaeology

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We have recently finished creating a short animation for the exhibition “Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, 1707–2007” at the Royal Academy in London. The three minute video demonstrates “Stonehenge revealed through digital technologies”.

It incorporates a fly-through of the Stonehenge landscape in 3D, based upon Environment Agency LIDAR (airborne 3D scanning) data, high resolution panoramas, and a new animation of the prehistoric dagger and axe carvings on Stone 53 at Stonehenge itself, from data collected by Archaeoptics Ltd.


A stunning aerial view, putting the sacred landscape in context. I'd prefer it to be a bit less stylized and geometric, and the yellowish tint is somewhat off-putting, but those are minor quibbles about what presumably are limitations of the technique they are using.