ChronoPoints’s MemoryScan Project Receives NEH DHAG
Drs. Lori Walters (PI) and Joseph Kider (Co-PI), SENSEable Design’s Co-Directors, have been awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Drs. Lori Walters (PI) and Joseph Kider (Co-PI), SENSEable Design’s Co-Directors, have been awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Visit our new Millican Hall Potree
Check out our Glass Bank Potree
Check out our new XP-82 Twin Mustang page
Laser scanning XP-82 Twin Mustang at Valiant Air Command
Visit the new MemoryScan page.
Visit the new St. Augustine Lighthouse Project page.
Visit the new Piney Croft Project page.
Welcome to the updated ChronoPoints website!
Laser Scanning the building’s roof before summer’s heat begins.
Laser Scanning UCF’s Millican Hall with undergraduate student
Laser scanning Carpenter Gothic architecture at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.
Laser Scanning the House of Refuge in Stuart, Florida
Please visit our new Jack Kerouac House page
Laser Scanning the Jack Kerouac House in College Park
UCF Today Article
A wonderful day to laser scan the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
Laser Scanning the House of Refuge.
To no surprise, the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse is a bit windy.
As we prepare for the Spring Semester of research, we took a ChronoPoints terrestrial laser scanner family snapshot.
Please visit the new project page of our Casa Feliz laser scan. The two-story Spanish Revival home was designed by noted Central Florida architect James Gamble Rogers II (1901-1990).
ChronoPoints has just added a project page of the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa Beach, an excellent example of Space-Age religious architecture.
Noted architect James Gamble Rogers II designed Casa Feliz in Winter Park, Florida
Before the TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport became the TWA Hotel, ChronoPoints was there to conduct a laser scan.
Preview of ChronoPoints laser scanning activities for summer 2019.
ChronoPoints captures a laser scan of the Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair ‘Korean War Hero’
Visit our Douglas C-47 laser scan project page – the first in a series of World War II aircraft scans.
Notre Dame fire and the laser scanning efforts that may assist in its restoration
ChronoPoints scans World War II era aircraft at Valiant Air Command
Visit three new Central Florida project pages!
Archaeology Student Laser Scans New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins
Laser scanning reveals beneath the New York State Pavilion’s paint.
Colorized scan of the First National Bank of Cape Canaveral
Intensity scan of the First National Bank of Cape Canaveral
New UCF undergraduate laser scanning course in Fall 2019.
ChronoPoints laser scanning equipment recently assisted a UCF School of Modeling & Simulation graduate student
Sarasota School architect Gene Leedy
These are renderings of the complete registered scan (stitching of the 11 scans captured) of a pedestrian bridge on the main University of Central Florida campus, conducted for a graduate Civil Engineering student project.
Completing a scanning project with UCF Engineering students.
ChronoPoints team member Rob Michlowitz is familiarizing UCF engineering students on the Leica P40 laser scanner.
ChronoPoints is now developing a ‘life history’ of the former First National Bank of Cape Canaveral. Designed by noted Sarasota School architect Gene Leedy, the two story structure was completed in 1963.
UCF Charging Knight Statue in Potree can be maneuvered for 360 views!
ChronoPoints just completed a laser scan of the “Charging Knight” statue situated near the main entrance to the University of Central Florida’s Spectrum Stadium.
The Rocket Thrower sculpture is one of a handful of objects remaining in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park from the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair. Created by Donald De Lue, the bronze statue stands 43 feet high and is located along the Court of the Astronauts hurling a rocket toward the Unisphere.
This interior of the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa Beach was gathered in just four scans with our new Leica ScanStation P40.
Please visit our new Ford Roundhouse Page – it provides a brief site history, photographs and the Potree feature which enables you to dynamically view our laser scan. Potree enables you to adjust the quality of the scan, so be certain to use the controls
This intensity scan is the first in a number scans that we will be uploading from our First United Methodist Church Cocoa Beach project. Scanned with our new Leica ScanStation P40. More to follow!
Photo courtesy Jim Newland, La Mesa Historical Society Taken June 29, 2018 With the decorative white beams to the right, this image depicts the complete demolition of the Roundhouse Rotunda. You can see the bridge to the service area remaining on the left.
Thank you to Karen Pearlman of the San Diego Union-Tribune for her coverage of the Penske-Ford Roundhouse demolition. The article demonstrates the cultural significance of the building to the local community.
Status of the Penske-Ford Roundhouse demolition in La Mesa as of June 22, 2018. Image provided by Jim Newland, La Mesa Historical Society
The ChronoPoints team ventured to La Mesa in March to capture the Penske-Ford Roundhouse prior to its impending demolition. We just learned the demolition of the building is now underway. We are currently working on a detailed Project Page regarding the structure’s history and our laser scanning effort. Until we launch the Roundhouse Project Page, here is a sample laser scan image of the building.
The Millard Sheets Mosaic project page from our La Mesa, California scanning trip is now available – take a moment to visit!
ChronoPoints team member, Rob Michlowitz, has located software from potree.org that will enable you to view and manipulate our laser scans!
The McKinney House in La Mesa is the first example – more to follow.
We just completed registering the scans from the McKinney House on our recent trip to La Mesa, California. Visit the McKinney House on the projects page.
ChronoPoints will be conducting a laser scan of the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa Beach later this month.
Today is the 57th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s suborbital Mercury flight representing the first American in space. ChronoPoints scanned the Mercury Mission Control room at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Center a few years ago. Please visit our video of the project https://vimeo.com/111700062
Together with Langan Engineering, we laser scanned the TWA Flight Center at JFK just prior to its transition to a hotel. If you are curious as to how it is progressing, this Architectural Digest article provides a glimpse … https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/twa-hotel-jfk-room-design
Today, I was in Cocoa Beach researching several locations that ChronoPoints plans to laser scan this summer. I thought I would share this wonderful City of Cocoa Beach emblem from the 1960s when the community was known as Missileland, USA due to the influence of nearby Cape Canaveral (Kennedy). The logo depicts the outline of a Minuteman Missile rising from the Cape.
Our March trip to San Diego was very productive. We were able to laser scan the Roundhouse building at Penske-Ford prior to its impending demolition and two additional area structures! While in La Mesa we also captured the exteriors of the JSC Innovation Centre (formerly a Home Savings building with a Millard Sheets Studio mosaic) and the 1908 McKinney House (La Mesa Historical Society). For additional information on the Millard Sheets mosaics on former Home Savings buildings throughout San Diego and Los Angeles http://adamarenson.com/category/home-savings-and-millard-sheets/ https://la.curbed.com/2011/10/10/10435072/how-la-banks-got-their-midcentury-mosaics-and-murals
The ChronoPoints team is heading to San Diego, well actually La Mesa just outside of San Diego, to capture the Penske-Ford Roundhouse building just prior to its impending demolition. The Roundhouse was inspired by the Ford Pavilion at the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair. Upon returning from the World’s Fair, the dealership’s original owner Elmer Drew, commissioned architect James Hurley to create a structure that invoked the lines noted Los Angeles architect Welton Becket developed for his masterpiece at the Fair. Read more about the Roundhouse demolition in the San Diego Reader. Additional information regarding Welton Becket can be found in Built by …
See our paper on scanning the TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport and the Cocoa Beach Glass Bank for the 2018 Creative Cities Conference/ Congreso Ciudades Creativas: MID-CENTURY MODERN STRUCTURES AND COMMUNITY: CAPTURING A BUILDING’S LIFE (ESTRUCTURAS MODERNAS Y COMUNIDAD DE MEDIADOS DE SIGLO: CAPTURANDO LA VIDA DE UN EDIFICIO) Authors: Robert A. MICHLOWITZ, Lori C. WALTERS, and Michelle J. ADAMS
ChronoPoints recently assisted members of the National Cemetery Administration in a heritage project at St. Augustine National Cemetery.