Our project consists of a story map shows the transformation of the Carleton Arboretum from its founding to the present day. Visit our website below to experience the wonders of the Arb from its founding in 1927 to the present. This project was created by Shannon Cashin, Kevin Bui, and Emmy Belloni.
This tutorial covers how to resize an image with the online tool Waifu2x and digitally clean a scanned image in Adobe Photoshop. The example image that I chose to use for this tutorial is a map, as I feel like old maps are a good example of images that Digital Humanists would want to clean […]
For this project I learned how to use the photogrammetry tool Metashape in order to create a 3D model of the Northfield Depot. Check it out here!
I found that importing the squirrel data and formatting it into ARCgis was a surprisingly easy process, and chose to keep displaying the data on squirrel color that was used as an example in class. Searching the collections of map overlays contained in the ARCgis system to find something that could give significant information in […]
While it is still very much a work in progress, I have been enjoying the experience of beginning to work with WordPress. The greatest challenge that I have encountered so far has been trying to strike a balance between creating a website that will be primarily used for this class for the rest of the […]
I have leaned toward the Humanities in my interests for the majority of my educational career. I enjoyed math and science, but when given the choice, I would often find myself leaning toward more Humanities-based pursuits, especially in the arts and storytelling. It wasn’t until this past fall that I chose to take a Computer […]
Today I explored Virtual Angkor, a website built in order to show off a complete digital 3d model of the historical city of Angkor Wat in the Khmer Empire in what is now Cambodia. The website has a focus on dynamic videos and interactivity, in order to best show the 3d space of the model. […]
Making is not a rebel movement, scrappy individuals going up against the system. Chachra, Debbie. “Why I Am Not a Maker.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 23 Jan. 2015. My attention was attracted by this quote because it made a statement that, upon first read, I did not agree with. I have always felt that creativity […]
I found that using SketchUp was not very difficult. It did not take long to learn what each tool did, especially after watching the short tutorial videos. What was difficult was getting used to using the commands in a quick and efficient way. At first, it was tricky to switch between tools and remember which […]
