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).
Laser Scanning
Visit UCF’s Mid-Century Roots
Visit our new Millican Hall Potree
Explore Glass Bank Point Cloud
Check out our Glass Bank Potree
XP-82 Twin Mustang Project Page Released
Check out our new XP-82 Twin Mustang page
Scanning XP-82 Twin Mustang
Laser scanning XP-82 Twin Mustang at Valiant Air Command
Visit New MemoryScan Page
Visit the new MemoryScan page.
St. Augustine Lighthouse Scan Released
Visit the new St. Augustine Lighthouse Project page.
Piney Croft Student Project
Visit the new Piney Croft Project page.
Updated ChronoPoints Website
Welcome to the updated ChronoPoints website!
Scanning Biological Sciences Building
Laser Scanning the building’s roof before summer’s heat begins.
Scanning Millican Hall
Laser Scanning UCF’s Millican Hall with undergraduate student
St. Luke’s – Merritt Island
Laser scanning Carpenter Gothic architecture at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.
House of Refuge
Laser Scanning the House of Refuge in Stuart, Florida
Visit Kerouac House Page
Please visit our new Jack Kerouac House page
Jack Kerouac House
Laser Scanning the Jack Kerouac House in College Park
UCF Today
UCF Today Article
Scanning the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
A wonderful day to laser scan the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
House of Refuge
Laser Scanning the House of Refuge.
St. Augustine Lighthouse
To no surprise, the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse is a bit windy.
ChronoPoints Scanning Equipment
As we prepare for the Spring Semester of research, we took a ChronoPoints terrestrial laser scanner family snapshot.
New Page – Casa Feliz
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).
New Page – First United Methodist Cocoa Beach
ChronoPoints has just added a project page of the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa Beach, an excellent example of Space-Age religious architecture.
Laser Scanning Casa Feliz
Noted architect James Gamble Rogers II designed Casa Feliz in Winter Park, Florida
TWA Flight Center in the News
Before the TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport became the TWA Hotel, ChronoPoints was there to conduct a laser scan.
Summer 2019 Scanning Preview
Preview of ChronoPoints laser scanning activities for summer 2019.
Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair Scan
ChronoPoints captures a laser scan of the Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair ‘Korean War Hero’
Visit new C-47 Project Page
Visit our Douglas C-47 laser scan project page – the first in a series of World War II aircraft scans.
Laser Scanning & Restoring Damaged Cultural Treasures
Notre Dame fire and the laser scanning efforts that may assist in its restoration
Scanning World War II Era Aircraft
ChronoPoints scans World War II era aircraft at Valiant Air Command
Visit Three New Central Florida Project Pages
Visit three new Central Florida project pages!
New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins
Archaeology Student Laser Scans New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins
Beneath the Painted Surface
Laser scanning reveals beneath the New York State Pavilion’s paint.
Gene Leedy’s Bank – Color Point Cloud
Colorized scan of the First National Bank of Cape Canaveral
Gene Leedy’s Bank – Intensity Scan
Intensity scan of the First National Bank of Cape Canaveral
New Laser Scanning Course in Fall 2019
New UCF undergraduate laser scanning course in Fall 2019.
Modeling & Simulation Student Scans Honors College
ChronoPoints laser scanning equipment recently assisted a UCF School of Modeling & Simulation graduate student
Noted Architect Gene Leedy Passes
Sarasota School architect Gene Leedy
Civil Engineering Students Laser Scan to Monitor Bridge
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.
UCF Class Project
Completing a scanning project with UCF Engineering students.
UCF Engineering Student Project
ChronoPoints team member Rob Michlowitz is familiarizing UCF engineering students on the Leica P40 laser scanner.
Gene Leedy’s Cape Canaveral Bank
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.
3D UCF Charging Knight
UCF Charging Knight Statue in Potree can be maneuvered for 360 views!
UCF Charging Knight Statue
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.
New Rocket Thrower Page
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.
First United Methodist Cocoa Beach Interior Scan
This interior of the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa Beach was gathered in just four scans with our new Leica ScanStation P40.
New Roundhouse Page
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
First United Methodist Church Cocoa Beach Scan Image
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!
Roundhouse Update
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.
San Diego Union Tribune
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.
Roundhouse Demolition Status
Status of the Penske-Ford Roundhouse demolition in La Mesa as of June 22, 2018. Image provided by Jim Newland, La Mesa Historical Society
Roundhouse Demolition Underway
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.
New – Millard Sheets Mosaic Page
The Millard Sheets Mosaic project page from our La Mesa, California scanning trip is now available – take a moment to visit!
New Point Cloud Viewer Feature
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.
McKinney House – La Mesa, CA
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.
First United Methodist Church – Cocoa Beach
ChronoPoints will be conducting a laser scan of the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa Beach later this month.
Alan Shepard Launch Day!
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
TWA Flight Center – Hotel
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
Missileland, USA
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.
San Diego Trip
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
Heading to San Diego!!
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 …
2018 Creative Cities Conference
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
St. Augustine National Cemetery
ChronoPoints recently assisted members of the National Cemetery Administration in a heritage project at St. Augustine National Cemetery.