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Harvard 3D History + NASA Drone Safety + Construction Robots Ranked + Sustainability Digital Twins
Description
It's The Re/Cap Podcast with Ellis Malmgren!
This week’s ‘cappenings:
The 2011 mega-capture of a famed 1,000-year-old French monastery
A Harvard 3D Exhibit is a PhD in photogrammetry and historic preservation
NASA seeks to safeguard our drones
Construction bots get the Top 5 treatment
Digital twins and sustainable design approach peas-and-carrots status
An AEC Error of the Week at Denver International in which the only turbulence was with folks’ luggage
Quick caps:
Chinese LiDAR can recognize a face…from space https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/chinese-lidar-system-could-recognize-a-face-from-space
Gaussian splatting in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-KNyJiLSPs
A concrete TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMiPKpXbm9A
The 3D scanning traveling metrology team keeping Warfighters airborne
https://metrology.news/traveling-metrology-team-keeps-warfighters-airborne-with-3d-scanning/
A new study on improving building energy models https://www.azobuild.com/news.aspx?newsID=23740
High-fidelity wheat plant reconstructions using 3D Gaussian splatting and neural radiance fields https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giaf022/8096368?login=false
Timestamps
0:00 Overview
0:29 The 2011 reality capture of a 1,000-year-old Cluny Monastery
2:49 Quick cap stories
3:20 Photogrammetry Honored an Architectural Historian, and Resurrected Ruins, at Once
5:07 NASA Is Ensuring Our Drones Can (Safely) Go to Infinity and Beyond
7:20 Droids in the Dirt: Autonomous Robots for Construction Sites, Ranked!
11:14 Copy That: How Digital Twins Make Sustainable Design an Easier “Yes”
13:36 AEC Error of the Week: Denver International Airport’s Automated Baggage System
Main Re/Cap sources:
https://www.cluny-abbaye.fr/en/discover/history-of-the-abbey-of-cluny
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/an-architect-detectives-medieval-mystery/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/aam/nasa-makes-progress-on-advanced-drone-safety-management-system/
https://www.unite.ai/autonomous-robots-for-construction/
https://parametric-architecture.com/digital-twins-and-sustainability/
https://noonpi.com/the-denver-international-airport-automated-baggage-handling-system/
Subscribe to The Re/Cap Newsletter! https://www.realitycapturenetwork.com/re-cap-sign-up
Previous Re/Cap Newsletters: https://www.realitycapturenetwork.com/education
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By Reality Capture NetworkDescription
It's The Re/Cap Podcast with Ellis Malmgren!
This week’s ‘cappenings:
The 2011 mega-capture of a famed 1,000-year-old French monastery
A Harvard 3D Exhibit is a PhD in photogrammetry and historic preservation
NASA seeks to safeguard our drones
Construction bots get the Top 5 treatment
Digital twins and sustainable design approach peas-and-carrots status
An AEC Error of the Week at Denver International in which the only turbulence was with folks’ luggage
Quick caps:
Chinese LiDAR can recognize a face…from space https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/chinese-lidar-system-could-recognize-a-face-from-space
Gaussian splatting in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-KNyJiLSPs
A concrete TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMiPKpXbm9A
The 3D scanning traveling metrology team keeping Warfighters airborne
https://metrology.news/traveling-metrology-team-keeps-warfighters-airborne-with-3d-scanning/
A new study on improving building energy models https://www.azobuild.com/news.aspx?newsID=23740
High-fidelity wheat plant reconstructions using 3D Gaussian splatting and neural radiance fields https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giaf022/8096368?login=false
Timestamps
0:00 Overview
0:29 The 2011 reality capture of a 1,000-year-old Cluny Monastery
2:49 Quick cap stories
3:20 Photogrammetry Honored an Architectural Historian, and Resurrected Ruins, at Once
5:07 NASA Is Ensuring Our Drones Can (Safely) Go to Infinity and Beyond
7:20 Droids in the Dirt: Autonomous Robots for Construction Sites, Ranked!
11:14 Copy That: How Digital Twins Make Sustainable Design an Easier “Yes”
13:36 AEC Error of the Week: Denver International Airport’s Automated Baggage System
Main Re/Cap sources:
https://www.cluny-abbaye.fr/en/discover/history-of-the-abbey-of-cluny
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/an-architect-detectives-medieval-mystery/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/aam/nasa-makes-progress-on-advanced-drone-safety-management-system/
https://www.unite.ai/autonomous-robots-for-construction/
https://parametric-architecture.com/digital-twins-and-sustainability/
https://noonpi.com/the-denver-international-airport-automated-baggage-handling-system/
Subscribe to The Re/Cap Newsletter! https://www.realitycapturenetwork.com/re-cap-sign-up
Previous Re/Cap Newsletters: https://www.realitycapturenetwork.com/education