Project Mosul

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nFrames joins Project Mosul

We are excited that nFrames, creators of the SURE photogrammetric software, have also joined Project Mosul providing us with both software and support in photogrammetric reconstructions. Check out the initial results from SURE.

Thanks guys for helping out!!

Nirgul Tablet by nFrames on Sketchfab

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3D Flow joins the cause

Just over a month ago, 3D Flow (a photogrammetry software company out of Verona, Italy) offered licenses to Project Mosul for their software, 3D Zephyr, to help in the cause of reconstructing lost heritage. We’ve been working with some of their latest beta releases of Zephyr and are excited to release an example of their work here and on the website.

The Lion Of Mosul by 3dflow on Sketchfab

In addition to their excellent software, they have offered to help out anyone working with photogrammetry that might have questions on how best to perform some of the tasks on the website. You can talk with them on our Slack channel (https://projectmosul.github.io). So, make sure and join the conversation and get in touch with them if you have any questions or want to give 3D Zephyr a try!

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Going Global

Project Mosul grew out of a response to the destruction of cultural heritage as seen in northern Iraq at the hands of ISIL. After the initial release of the video documenting the destruction in the Mosul Museum, other claims were made of destruction at two important sites, Hatra and Nimrud. It wasn’t long till videos were released documenting the destruction at these sites as well as the museum. The natural step for Project Mosul is to move from a single site to incorporate other sites. To this end, we have made the necessary changes to make Project Mosul ‘go global’ and approach it now from a map-based interface. Users can drop pins at sites where heritage has been lost either due to conflict or natural disasters (Nepal, for example). Each area becomes a micro-site where users can focus on the digital restoration of these areas. 

The global ‘tasks’ section now shows a total of the work needing to be done, while each location now has tasks just related to that location.

We’re working hard on setting up an easy way for users to mask images directly through the web interface, so please keep checking back for that to be ready to go.

Project Mosul represents heritage lost, not only in times of conflict, but through natural disaster. We hope that it will serve to help reconstruction that which we can no longer recover through normal means of restoration.