This post also appears on the Sketchfab cultural heritage blog Recently I’ve been working with Anna Reading and Jim Bjork of King’s College London, graphic artist Akvile Terminaite, and Abira Hussein of the Nomad Project on a pilot project to investigate how new technology can be used to replicate or augment the physical experience and also to develop a workflow that will help smaller heritage institutions to join in with a quiet 3D digital revolution. It’s clear that emergin

A version of this blog post also appears on the King's Digital Lab website It is a truth universally acknowledged that a conference attendee with the keys to the corporate Twitter account will be in need of Wi-Fi. In the splendid setting of the Assembly Rooms, I was unable to keep the feed fed. This was a cause of frustration until I adopted a stoic perspective and concentrated instead on the substance of the discussions, rather than trying to reduce them to pithy soundbites

It's been many months since I posted here, having been kept busy with the day job, but also having absorbed the enormity of the supposed sandbox task of pulling together a mixture of real and invented 3D models into something resembling a convincing place. Crafting a fully realized environment is a job normally undertaken by teams of designers and modelers, sometimes over several years; teams with access to the latest software and high-end graphics workstations. It was naive

The village of Amberwald (see previous post) is my sandbox for testing out ways of creating imaginative content from 3D and 2D tools. I also plan to write faux historical vignettes and perhaps some thumbnail biographies of Amberwald's more notable characters. I've pictured this process occurring in quite an organic way; I might sketch a landscape or a building, or I might put together mood boards of images that evoke something that I want to capture. I thought I would create

I arrived at an interest in visualisation and interpretation of heritage and environment later than I would have liked. I'm here now because a suite of technologies and standards has emerged that enables me to pursue a childhood flight of fancy... When I was very young and riding in the back seat of our Ford Cortina, driving through narrow lanes, sleepy villages and wide countryside, I would notice little nuggets of architecture, twisted trees, crooked gravestones, fractured