Thursday 24 June 2010

Stone Casualties

The recent Coalition Government cancellation of the new Stonehenge Visitors Centre and associated re-routing of the A344, along with a great post in Andrew Crook's GIS and Agent Based Modelling blog inspired me to download a trial of Pixel Active's City Scape, city modelling and simulation software and try it out for archaeological landscape modelling.



The promise of GIS data input and the ability to use 3D models in industry standard formats, coupled with sophisticated visualisation and agent-based traffic simulation bodes well and immediately lends itself to a quick visualisation of the sad state of Britain's most iconic ancient monument.  So here, in a short movie, the imprisoned stones, for now at least, to remain locked within late 20th century clutter.  

 
 

Landscape based on Ordnance Survey landform profile terrain data and MasterMap mapping using again Tom Harvey's excellent SketchUp model of the stones themselves.  I'm impressed with City Scape and will return to it again in the near future.