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Friday 7 October 2011

Tealing Earthhouse


This 2000 year old storage cellar would have been part of a larger roundhouse built above ground. Situated in Tealing just outside of Dundee it presents the same challenges for KAP and photogrammetry which I expect to face capturing other Iron Age ruins, the biggest being overhanging walls. I shot around 2000 frames this evening which I'll attempt to resolve into 3D at a later date. Details of the site here.

2 comments:

  1. It is amazing to imagine people bringing back to life things that no longer exist just almost by the memory of those places, and in a certain why be able to experience again the kind of environment they had..

    You are filming these places? Thought you are photographing them.

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  2. This site is great as the cellar that is left outlines the edge of what would have been a huge wooden roundhouse. I'm hoping to get to the Crannog Centre this reading week where they have re-constructed a similar roof structure.

    Not much point trying to film from the kite as the motion is really erratic. I use a stills camera which is constantly taking photographs so I get all angles. In theory I can use these hi-res sequences to re-create the geometry using photogrammetry, and then project the photos onto the mesh for a detailed texture.

    The end result should be a nice smooth camera motion faked in 3D, and from there build the roof back up etc. Still testing all this stuff though!

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