It’s been a while since we’ve posted some new discovery. We’ve been so caught up with the January events of ’09. First Joe and I had to finish up our 2009 new year resolutions, which turn out to be more like long to-do list than resolutions.
Then we got caught up with the big inauguration of our new President Obama, whom we love and support. (I sort of feel connected to our new President since he grew up in Indonesia and me in Malaysia and he can speak Bahasa!!)
So among my long to-do new year resolutions, was for me to brush up on my AutoCAD skills and learn Revit Architecture before I miss out on another cool tool. (So I signed up at CadTeacher, a local continuing education cad school, whom the principal, Al Whitley is the most patient teacher and architect I’ve ever met in my life!)
While reading my monthly Fortune January 09 issue, I stumbled upon the article, “Saving Easter Island” by Jeffrey M. O’Brien. I didn’t think much about it at first, but since I am a big fan of Jared Diamond’s work, I thought this may add to my current read on evolutionary biology.
Autodesk along with the officials of Easter Island, Leica Geosystems and Metco Services are working together on The Easter Island Mapping Project. Easter Island is facing challenges with tourism and development while preserving it’s historical artifacts and natural resources. Now the cool part is when Pete Kelsey from AutoCAD brought his team along with members from Leica and Metco to the island, and laser scanned super high res 3-D model and imported the assemblage into AutoCAD Civil 3D and with that they are able to use those data for mapping, analysis, construction and preservation.
I am not going to give away the content of the article, as it’s a wonderful read and I encourage you to get this copy of Fortune. You can also check out the diaries of the Autodesk Expedition Team here. This was truly an inspiring discovery to me, as it shows me how technology can bring forth partnerships, change, and modernization while preserving culture and history.
