TNG Visual Effects: December 2014

A 'Lost' New England is found using #Lidar. To find out more, National Geographic interviews Katharine Johnson of the University of Connecticut and asks what was so great about using Lidar technology.

"...Similar to seeing Maya pyramids emerging from the forest, we can see sites that we couldn't any other way. I literally walk into the woods with GPS coordinates from LiDAR and find a foundation I would never have imagined was there..."

Click on the link to read the original article. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140103-new-england-archaeology-lidar-science/

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The Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art in Washington, DC, are due to release their entire collections online on January 1, 2015. More than 40,000 works, from ancient Chinese jades to 13th-century Syrian metalwork and 19th-century Korans, will be accessible through high-resolution images without copyright restrictions for non-commercial use. The vast majority—nearly 35,000 objects—have never been seen by the public.

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are the first Smithsonian museums and the only Asian art museums to complete the labour-intensive process of digitising and releasing their entire collections online. Click here to read the full article.