3D Modeling
Description: A number of projects engage students in creating 3D digital models of real-world objects. In one course, for example, students in Dr. Robin Wharton’s expository composition class contributed to the Phoenix Project as part of a semester-long interdisciplinary examination of material culture. Using Agisoft’s Photoscan, students generated 3D models of historical artifacts excavated during the construction of the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail lines. They then drew upon their experience with the objects and their independent research to compose detailed essays explaining what each object is, how it appears to the senses, and what occurrence of events could have led the object to Georgia State University. Student work from the course was presented in Spring of 2015 at the Southern American Studies Association biennial conference in Atlanta and the Computer Applications in Archaeology conference in Siena, Italy.
Contact:
Robin Wharton
3D Atlanta
Description: This project recreates an Atlanta city block – specifically Decatur Street at Central Avenue (where Classroom South is now) – to show the historical view of the space as it looked in the 1920’s – 1930’s. The goal is to showcase an interactive space where students can experience it as though they were ‘walking through’ it in the past. In order to recreate the space, the 3D Atlanta team is using archived photographic material to render each building. Eventually the environment will feature movement – including cars, streetcars, people, etc. The team is using maps of the period featuring shops, people, and objects, and will hopefully be able to feature narratives taken from real events (such as happenings at the 81 Theatre) for students to interact with. As a means to connect this project beyond GSU, this project is collaborating with students and faculty at Emory who are also working on a similar historical project.
Contact:
Brennan Collins
FINISHED PROJECTS:
After Malcolm
Description: A joint project of Dr. Abbas Barzegar of Georgia State University and Dr. Bilal King of Morehouse College, After Malcolm is a resource for researchers, educators, and civic groups to explore Atlanta’s unique history of African American Muslim experiences. The After Malcolm website, built with SIF help, contains a series of archival materials and oral histories documenting Atlanta’s Muslim community.
Contact:
Abbas Barzegar
Atlanta Mass Transit
Description: This team has been trained in the use of ArcGIS Desktop to digitize and georeference historical planning documents of Atlanta’s mass transit system. They have chosen maps for digitization are chosen from the Planning Atlanta Collection which display plans specifically for rail transportation, other maps are digitized by project members using ArcMap. The tean is grouping digitized maps by decade and displaying them using Esri’s Story Map platform. The final map is available here.
Contact:
Joe Hurley
1934 Tax Map Project
Description: For this project, team members geo-referenced 30 tax maps, each showing a couple of blocks of 1934 Atlanta using Esri’s ArcMap 10.1 to turn the jpg files into geotiff (files which have geospatial data associated with them). The georeferenced maps are part of the GSU Library’s WPA Digital Collection.