Historical Fly-Overs
After ortho-rectifying the aerial photographs we made movies so that you could explore the change in Fayetteville over time.
These products require quicktime. You can download it for free here.
To see all of Fayetteville from 1926 to 2003 click here.
Here is the list of years and their movies:
Watch this space … An online map is in the production stage … please visit us soon to view the application.
Bank of Fayetteville
Joshua Dunn:
This summer I had the privilege of working with EAST students from the Northwest Arkansas and River Valley areas. When we began this internship we had plenty of intelligence, but little if any prior knowledge of working with geographic data. After we finished processing the majority of the historic aerial photographs Fiona approached me and asked me to work with some new software that was in question to be used in future EAST labs. I jumped at the opportunity.
Before coming to CADIS this summer I had previously taken photography and composition classes, as well as experimenting in my own darkroom. Midway through the project I was given access to literally thousands of area historic photographs courtesy of Bob's Studio of Fayetteville. Of these ranging from the 1800s through 1970s I chose one photo. The building which is now the bank of Fayetteville has been a mainstay in town since it was Lewis Bros. Hardware. It is a symbol as distinct to Fayetteville as Old Main or the Old Courthouse. Since John Lewis was gracious enough to agree to pay one of our intern's salary for the summer, I thought this a nice gesture to bring his family's historic landmark into the digital world, literally.
I began working with sketchup four weeks ago. You can think of this software as Microsoft Paint on steroids. And in three dimensions. Sketchup is a proof of concept-oriented design software with minimal CAD capabilities. It was developed with input by architects who needed a quick and simple solution for on the fly changes to plans.
After I selected my base photo I located the bank on our 2003 Quickbird Satellite image. I then digitally measured the footprint of the building and set a placeholder in sketchup to represent the foundation of the building...and worked my way up from the ground.
To see the video of the Bank of Fayetteville, click here.
To interact with the model of the Bank of Fayetteville, click here. You should save it to your desktop then open it with the viewer, which you will need to download. Click here to download.
