Roosevelt Island, June 18
I took Bryan to Roosevelt Island for his first time. The island is one of my favorite things about DC. It’s a different place each time I visit, it gives me a nature fix that is very close to home, sometimes I get to see deer, and it honors one of my favorite heroes. We walked all along the perimeter of the island and then to the monument in the middle. Photo by Bryan Smith The deer kept themselves hidden this time, but we still got to see lots of zebra swallowtail butterflies (though none were cooperative about being photographed), dragonflies, birds, lizards, fish, and flowers. The entire photo set can be viewed on Flickr.
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Visualizing Early Washington DC
UMBC’s Imaging Research Center (IRC) is working on an incredible project that will bring to life Washington DC as it looked around 1790-1820. One of their first steps is to recreate the grounds of the Notley Young Plantation, in what is now SW DC around Benjamin Banneker Park. The images you see below are recreations of two of the plantation’s structures. These models are for geometric purposes; textures will be added later. The implications of this project are fascinating, especially when you consider that they have plans to integrate the fruits of their labor with location-aware mobile phones. Years from now, when you enter a holodeck and walk around early 19th-century DC, you can thank these guys. More Information: Visualizing Early Washington DC The Beginning of the Road (Washington Post, 08/31/08)
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