{"id":1,"date":"2012-03-23T01:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-12-05T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:12:29","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"The 3D_lgc project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WELCOME to the web site for the 3D_lgc project based in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Letchworth\">Letchworth Garden City<\/a>, SG6,\u00a0Hertfordshire, UK.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s about halfway between London and Cambridge.<\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>|| THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED AND THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE. ||<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3dlgc-Follow-up-poster-high-res_2a1.png\"><strong>Afterthoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our sponsor Earthware have posted their verdict on the project and its results\u00a0<a title=\"Earthware's Blog entry about the 3D_lgc project and results\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthware.co.uk\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final publicity<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Here is the poster we placed in The Comet to invite more modelling by members of the public (&#8220;crowd sourcing&#8221;).\u00a0<em>Thanks to Chris Jackson\/Siegeworks for the artwork elements for this and our previous posters.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3dlgc Follow-up poster, high-res_2a\" src=\"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3dlgc-Follow-up-poster-high-res_2a1.png\" alt=\"3dlgc Follow-up poster, high-resolution\" width=\"1240\" height=\"1755\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are the 3D models?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>23 or more are already in Google Earth (tick its 3D option and search for &#8220;Letchworth SG6 UK&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Around \u00a036 including those are in the 3D Warehouse (search for &#8220;3D_lgc&#8221; or open the 3D_lgc Collection).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"A link to our FaceBook page.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/3dLgc\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"FaceBook_visit_us_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FaceBook_visit_us_logo1.png\" alt=\"Logo and link: visit us on FaceBook\" width=\"302\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><em><em><em><strong>In Google Earth<\/strong> t<\/em><\/em><\/em>here were only two\u00a0<em>3D models <\/em>for the whole of Letchworth Garden City<em><em>. <\/em><\/em>We used crowd sourcing to add many more!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/3dwarehouse\/search?q=letchworth+herts&amp;styp=m&amp;scoring=t&amp;btnG=Search\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even thought this competition is now closed, you can quickly find out about creating three-dimensional (3D) models using Google &#8211; now Trimble &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_SketchUp\" target=\"_blank\">SketchUp<\/a> software. This is free in its basic version but also used by professionals.\u00a0In four easy steps &#8211; outline, raise, sculpt and apply photos, as illustrated\u00a0<a title=\"How to create 3D models of buildings\" href=\"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/?p=1023\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> &#8211; you can help to:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Put Letchworth on the 3D Map!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do digital 3D modelling?<\/strong> &#8211; For many possible reasons, for example civic pride, promoting a business, urban planning, crisis response, historical preservation; as Google explain in\u00a0<a title=\"Google's 'Your World in 3D' site.\" href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/intl\/en_uk\/yourworldin3d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Your World in 3D<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>This competition<\/strong> was launched <\/strong>with 6 free hands-on taster sessions\u00a0at the\u00a0<a title=\"Goldsmith Centre for Business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.ac.uk\/resources\/2\/directions\/gc4b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Goldsmith Centre for Business<\/a>, North Hertfordshire College. These were followed by 10 practice sessions at The Hub and in J D Wetherspoon&#8217;s Three Magnets pub.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For specialists in 3D\/Computer Aided Design<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>We held a \u00a0<strong>3D Innovations<\/strong> symposium from 11:00 to 12:30 or so on 16th November in The Hub, 43 Station Road, Letchworth, SG6 3BQ. This was a specialist\u00a0business-to-business event by invitation to share the state of the art and prospects for 3D digital modelling, visualisation and related technologies.<\/p>\n<p>We also held a\u00a0<strong>SketchUp Master Class <\/strong>with<strong> Mike Tanti Design<\/strong> at 14:00-15:30 or so that afternoon in The Hub.\u00a0<a title=\"Awards Finale events \u2013 NEW!\" href=\"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/?page_id=1212\">details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0<strong>Sponsors&#8217; Evaluation<\/strong> session was held in The Hub from 11:00-12:30 or so on Friday 30 November in The Hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELCOME to the web site for the 3D_lgc project based in\u00a0Letchworth Garden City, SG6,\u00a0Hertfordshire, UK. That&#8217;s about halfway between London and Cambridge. || THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED AND THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE. || Afterthoughts Our sponsor Earthware have posted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/?p=1\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/competition.letchworthfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}