•  For Archaeologists  •

Establish a digital link between your excavation and our model shop.  We help you digitally record and transmit back to us survey data, daily trench progress, precise find spots, and detailed architectural information.  We build 3D models of your trench, your finds, and your architectural remains, providing you with immediate feedback in the form of 2D and 3D visualizations.  Our innovative visualizations of your progress help clarify excavation strategies while the dig proceeds.

Has been used by excavations in Israel, Italy, and Turkey.
For example, digitally modeling of Seyitomer, Turkey, based on photographs from the on-going rescue excavations to ensure that full site coverage is collected before removal of the evidence (photographs of the site above a Learning Sites rendering of a Hellenistic house using actual site photographs as wall textures).

The past happened in 3D, so should our study of it. How better to test theories about a site, a building, or an event, than by reproducing the locations as a 3D model so that you can see the past through the eyes of ancient inhabitants?

For example, choose a site or building and associated artifacts from your work; we will reproduce them in a 3D computer model, re-placing the objects in an authentic, researched setting and will program the environment for virtual reality. You will be able to approach and explore the site and its objects, move around them, and get a near firsthand experience of the place--begin to ask questions of the data, such as "how do the doorway locations affect how inhabitants moved through the spaces?" "how would different lighting methods or window placement affect activities in various spaces?" We will also link text and still images (or narrations) to objects in the virtual world, providing you and your colleagues with an interactive and exciting research and study experience.

For example, a 3D computer model can be a visual index to a publication, allowing users to walk through buildings or sites and select, with just a mouse click, the artifact or architectural element about which they want additional information (such as inventory data, bibliography, drawings, your analyses, or field diary excerpts). Such a model, or a virtual world constructed from it, can also be used in the classroom, engaging students in an active learning experience.

For example, your excavation data or project research can be turned into course supplements or entire educational packages through the addition of interactive virtual worlds, animations, and high-resolution 2D visualizations that we create under your supervision.  Our educational packages are first extensively field tested across the country, and then commercial products are generated from which you receive royalties.  In partnership, we can produce classroom materials using the most up-to-date information for the benefit of public education.

Digitize excavated materials as they are extracted, send the information back to our model shop where we will turn around 3D visualizations of the site, building, or assemblages to send back to you in the field to aid in redirecting or interpreting your excavation strategies. The same information can be placed on the Internet, if you wish, for instant feedback from colleagues, thus providing you with the most current evaluations and interpretations while you work.  The same digital data can provide you with stunning visualizations for teaching, publication, conference talks, and donor presentations.