Scanning the USS Arizona in 3D

hey that this is Kenneth Wong senior editor for desktop engineering magazine what you're looking at is no ordinary coke bottle it's one that still sits on the deck of USS Arizona sunken during the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th 1941 in an underwater survey project that involves divers sonar equipment laser scanners and sophisticated 3d data processing software the USS Arizona is about to become a digital 3d model with details that were previously inaccessible to the general public the coral crusted Reeves the barnacle covered features of the ship they're all going to be recorded first as point cloud data or clusters of tiny dots and later they'll be stitched up into a panoramic 3d scene with the help of Autodesk and a number of companies volunteering their time and skills and technology the National Park Service is creating a comprehensive survey of the sunken battleship and its surroundings the project is expected to give historians archaeologists and researchers a much better understanding about the changes that has taken place since World War two people would be able to take measurements for example on the digital model itself to see the effects of seawater barnacles and corrosion this past Memorial Day there was a press conference at the USS Arizona Memorial Park among those present were some survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack don stratton now 92 was a 19 year old seaman stationed on the deck when the japanese fighter planes and flew in here he held in his hand a 3d printed scaled model of the cooking pot on the USS Arizona captured and reconstructed in Autodesk recap infraworks and project memento nology and software the same technologies and process might be used in architecture projects archaeological preservation of factory and plants law analysis to study and improve large structures as more manageable digital 3d models that can easily be loaded and studied inside computers the USS Arizona project of course sets out to preserve much more than the shape of the sunken ship in the end it'll end up capturing and preserving the memories of heroic lives cut short by the outbreak of war for tests of Engineering magazine this is senior editor

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Keywords: USS Arizona (Ship), autodesk, surveying, pearl harbor

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Length: 2min 53sec (173 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 03 2014