For this most recent assignment, I decided to write my “deconstruction” of a Digital Humanities project on a virtual version of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world and located in Cambodia (you can access the project here). The temple complex was built in the 12th century in what is now northwest Cambodia […]
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Virtual Angkor is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Tom Chandler, Adam Clulow, Bernard Keo, Mike Yeates and Martin Polkinghorne, “Virtual Angkor”, 2018, virtualangkor.com.Posner, Miriam. “How Did They Make That?” Designed primarily as an educational tool to transport students into a […]
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Visualizing The Past
A Difficult Introduction to SketchUP 3D Looking back on my first experience with SketchUP, the only thing that I can think about to really describe the experience would be frustration. A lot of it. I began by attempting to utilize the web version of the application on my laptop, only to discover that it was […]
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SketchUp Mini Project
I found SketchUp to be a more manageable software in this project than in any of my previous attempts at 3D modeling. This may be in part due to my familiarity with the model in question, my childhood home, but also due to the increased amount of digital collaboration I have undertaken since my first […]
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My Sketchup Adventure
This first assignment in the course involved us using the application Sketchup to create a basic 3D model of our house from where we grew up. At the beginning before we began playing around with the software, the task seemed daunting since designing a house is something that requires years of education and practice. However, […]
