Town and Factory: An Historic Building Survey of 200 Years of John Paton's Kilncraigs Woollen Mill in Alloa, Clackmannanshire

Sproat, Diana; Toolis, Ronan; Hepher, James; Rankin, Dorothy

doi:10.1179/iar.2004.26.1.21

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“…Many of the recent works on industrial archaeology have revolved around mapping various machines and mechanisms from ancient times until the last century. Among the most interesting projects, it is worth mentioning the documenting of kilns using photogrammetry [26]; tide mills using terrestrial laser scanning [27]; windmills using total station surveying [28]; steam engines using digital mapping [29]; sluices using a combination of terrestrial laser scanning, photogrammetry, total station, and thermal surveys [30]; machine for cutting grass using digital mapping [31]; woolen mills using terrestrial laser scanning [32]; etc. Moreover, there is a clear tendency for further integrating 3D digital models into VR/AR [33,34].…”

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A Study of the Accuracy of a 3D Indoor Camera for Industrial Archaeology Applications

Shults,

Levin,

Aukazhiyeva

et al. 2023

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The paper aims to study the geometrical quality and opportunities of the state-of-the-art 3D camera Matterport Pro and examine its potential for industrial archaeology applications. The presented study consisted of two steps. In the first step, the geometrical quality of the camera-generated point cloud was investigated on the calibration test field. The geometrical quality was checked in two ways: (1) with distance comparison between reference targets and (2) with point cloud comparison. The coordinates of the reference targets were determined using a high-precision total station, while the FARO Scanner generated the reference point cloud. The study established that Matterport Pro has a scale systematic error that must be accounted for in 3D modeling and the inventory of archaeological objects. In the second step, the geometrical quality of the camera was checked for the actual archaeological object. As such an object, the historical copper-shaft Quincy Mine in Michigan State Upper Peninsula was considered. The specific subject of the study was one of the largest hoist engines in the world. The Matterport Pro camera scanned the indoor environment of the hoist engine house. The accuracy of the 3D model of the hoist engine was checked using additional linear measurements on-site. It was found that the accuracy of 1% showed that the camera specification can be improved through calibration. As an output of the second step, the accurately refined 3D model of the hoist engine’s interior was built. That model was embedded into a 3D model of the hoist engine’s house for usage in virtual tours of the Quincy Mine Museum. Finally, a virtual tour was created of the Quincy Mine house with exterior and interior models referenced to the geographical frame.

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