{"id":598,"date":"2019-08-05T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tuba\/?p=598"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:18:15","slug":"all-aboard-next-stop-digital-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/2019\/08\/05\/all-aboard-next-stop-digital-land\/","title":{"rendered":"All aboard! Next stop: digital land!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over here at TUBA, it\u2019s been full focus on 3D work, Vindolanda, steam trains and puns (prepare yourself for a dad joke overload!)<\/p>\n

Come on baby, scan the Locomotion<\/h1>\n

You may not know, but Darlington has rich history of railway travel. In fact, the very first public train journey was made here, from Darlington to Stockton, back in 1825. This journey was made by the rather inventively named locomotive, Locomotion No. 1. Though to be honest, it probably should have been called the\u00a0slowcomotion\u00a0<\/em>thanks to the top speed of 12 miles an hour (and, bizarrely, a lack of brakes..?!).<\/p>\n

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Just imagine, people were scared for their lives on this cutesy 12 mph fella!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And so, we were invited alongside some of the fantastic forensic science researchers at Teesside University to take some 3D scans of the Locomotion. And what a beauty, if not a bit of a daunting task! We might have gotten a little too excited when agreeing to this one, but hey, that\u2019s all part of research, right..? Crawling underneath the Locomotion through decades worth of cobwebs was not quite so expected (I\u2019m pretty sure I saw Frodo trapped down there somewhere).<\/p>\n

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Rhys: “For the love of all things trains, DONT. START. MOVING.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whilst myself, Amber Collings and Tim Thompson were powering through taking Faro laser scans all around the Locomotion, Awatif Shamata and Rebecca Strong were going full steam ahead<\/em> scanning smaller objects with the HP structured light scanner, including a penny lick. Yeah, you don\u2019t want a penny lick. Originally used for serving a bit of ice cream at the cost of a penny, they ended up being banned because the lack of proper cleanliness resulted in widespread disease. But hey, these ended up being replaced for ice cream cones, so I guess the cholera and tuberculosis were worth it…<\/p>\n