A malleable 3D mapping system for pre-modern maps and views
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Inspiration
Chorography City maps and views A multi-step workflow
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Creation
Houdini digital Assets (HDA) Example 3D maps Unity Toolkit
Documentation
A database of premodern city views An annotated bibliography Workflow tutorials
The primary goal of the Sandcastle project is to enable researchers to visualize non-cartesian, premodern images of places in a comparative environment that resembles the gestural, malleable one used by medieval and early modern cartographers and artists.
Principal Investigators
Philip Stern
Associate Professor - History Duke University
Edward Triplett
Lecturing Fellow - Art, Art History and Visual Studies Duke University