{"id":575,"date":"2019-07-05T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tuba\/?p=575"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:03:59","slug":"lights-scanners-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/2019\/07\/05\/lights-scanners-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Scanners, Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Act One, Scene One!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here at TUBA, we\u2019ve been busy sweating out with our new FARO Focus terrestrial scanner, taking 3D scans of the entire excavations at Vindolanda. Those that have visited the site and seen white spheres or &#8220;little spaceships&#8221; dotted across the site and a tripod bobbing around &#8211; that was us!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-575 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190627_103019-1-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190627_103019-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190627_103019-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190627_103019-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190627_103019-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-579'>\n\t\t\t\tNot a bad swap for the office for today!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"963\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190619_172957-808x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190619_172957-808x1024.jpg 808w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190619_172957-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190619_172957-768x973.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190619_172957.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-580'>\n\t\t\t\tRhys is short enough already, he doesn\u2019t need the scanner making him even smaller!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Clearly, there was a bit of movie magic going on because as soon as we left Teesside, the weather became absolutely, positively, gorgeous! Our poor noses barely had a chance to anticipate such glorious weather after leaving behind the torrential rain in Teesside, and may have come back home a tad red. Thanks to the rapid speed of the FARO scanner, some great scanning strategies, and some help from our wonderful new forensic science lecturer Dr Amber Collings, we managed to scan most of the site in just a handful of (long) days. If only the processing, merging and cleaning of the scans could be so quick!<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Act Two<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Whilst at Vindolanda, we\u2019ve also been doing some more 3D scans of their artefacts. We started with testing how well our scanner works on some of the wooden tools. The answer &#8211; lovely! Here\u2019s an example of what kind of models we get from scanning (small file size, but best be safe and load over WiFi):<\/p>\n<div class=\"sketchfab-embed-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wooden Miscellaneous Tool from Vindolanda (2)\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"427\" class=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" onmousewheel=\"\" width=\"760\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowvr=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; vr\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/models\/132fbcf1514a47a7ba410ad4b48a28cc\/embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px; color: #4A4A4A;\">    <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/3d-models\/wooden-miscellaneous-tool-from-vindolanda-2-132fbcf1514a47a7ba410ad4b48a28cc?utm_campaign=132fbcf1514a47a7ba410ad4b48a28cc&#038;utm_medium=embed&#038;utm_source=oembed\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;\">Wooden Miscellaneous Tool from Vindolanda (2)<\/a>    by <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/williamsrhy?utm_campaign=132fbcf1514a47a7ba410ad4b48a28cc&#038;utm_medium=embed&#038;utm_source=oembed\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;\">Rhys Williams (Teesside University)<\/a>    on <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchfab.com?utm_campaign=132fbcf1514a47a7ba410ad4b48a28cc&#038;utm_medium=embed&#038;utm_source=oembed\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;\">Sketchfab<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We also scanned some<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindolanda.com\/blog\/severan-skulls\"> human heads violently forced onto pikes<\/a>. These were unexpectedly difficult thanks to the damage: the insides exposed but there wasn\u2019t <em>enough<\/em> damage to actually scan them without an extra 14 scans taken at awkward angles. But more on these\u00a0 crania soon enough!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-593 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/files\/2019\/07\/20190626_142309-900x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190626_142309-900x1024.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190626_142309-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190626_142309-768x874.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190626_142309.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">POV of the scanner toward the cranium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Act Three<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Now, you may be wondering what\u2019s with the lame filming puns? Well, whilst at Vindolanda, we\u2019ve been doing some TV filming!\u00a0 A film crew came over from America to Vindolanda and Hadrian\u2019s Wall to film for a new Discovery Channel series, and we were thrilled when they asked us to show some of the science and imaging work we\u2019ve been doing.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-575 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190704_110032-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190704_110032-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190704_110032-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190704_110032-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2019\/07\/20190704_110032.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-584'>\n\t\t\t\tSneaky peek at the filming amongst the midgies\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Whilst we\u2019re having to be hush-hush on the details for now, we should be able to give more information before the expected air date of November. In the meantime, satisfy your need for more TUBA work, and check out our exhibit already at Vindolanda!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-586\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-586 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/environment\/files\/2019\/07\/20190704_105417-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our inception-esque exhibit at Vindolanda &#8211; get lost in the layers of preservation!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And that\u2019s a wrap!<\/p>\n<p><strong>TUBA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act One, Scene One! Here at TUBA, we\u2019ve been busy sweating out with our new FARO Focus terrestrial scanner, taking 3D scans of the entire excavations at Vindolanda. Those that have visited the site and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/2019\/07\/05\/lights-scanners-action\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}