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London through the Eyes of Self-Driving Cars

London through the Eyes of Self-Driving Cars

Thanks to ScanLAB Projects on behalf of New York Times Magazine, we can get a glimpse of what autonomous cars see when they navigate through the city. To do this, two architectural designers, Matthew Shaw and William Trossell, used a laser scanner to a Honda CR-V and drive through the city of London. The result is a very detailed and almost dreamlike quality.

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But all of that depends on cars being able to navigate the built environment. The cars now being tested by Google, BMW, Ford and others all see by way of a particular kind of scanning system called lidar (a portmanteau of ‘‘light’’ and ‘‘radar’’). A lidar scanner sends out tiny bursts of illumination invisible to the human eye, almost a million every second, that bounce off every building, object and person in the area. This undetectable machine-­flicker is ‘‘capturing’’ extremely detailed, millimeter-­scale measurements of the surrounding environment, far more accurate than anything achievable by the human eye. Capturing resembles photography, but it operates volumetrically, producing a complete three-­dimensional model of a scene. The extreme accuracy of lidar lends it an air of infallible objectivity; a clean scan of a stationary structure can be so precise that nonprofit organizations like CyArk have been using lidar as a tool for archaeological preservation in conflict zones, hoping to capture at-­risk sites of historical significance before they are destroyed. [...] The sensory limitations of these vehicles must be accounted for, Nourbakhsh explained, especially in an urban world filled with complex architectural forms, reflective surfaces, unpredictable weather and temporary construction sites. This means that cities may have to be redesigned, or may simply mutate over time, to accommodate a car’s peculiar way of experiencing the built environment. The flip side of this example is that, in these brief moments of misinterpretation, a different version of the urban world exists: a parallel landscape seen only by machine-­sensing technology in which objects and signs invisible to human beings nevertheless have real effects in the operation of the city. If we can learn from human misperception, perhaps we can also learn something from the delusions and hallucinations of sensing machines. But what?

“The Dream Life of Driverless Cars” from New York Times

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Rome’s Invisible City | ScanLAB | BLDG BLOG

BBC’s ONE’s 60 minute special Rome’s Invisible City follows ScanLAB Projects and presenters Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott as they explore the hidden underground secrets of Ancient Rome. The show explores Roman infrastructure and ingenuity, all below ground level. We journeyed via the icy, crystal clear waters of subterranean aqueducts that feed the Trevi fountain and two thousand year old sewers which still function beneath the Roman Forum today, to decadent, labyrinthine catacombs. Our laser scans map these hidden treasures, revealing for the first time the complex network of tunnels, chambers and passageways without which Rome could not have survived as a city of a million people.

The team experienced unprecedented access to some of Rome most recently discovered treasures and most recent archaeological finds, guided by a Rome’s Underground Archaeology Unit. Often access was complex but exciting - abseiling 20 meters down through a manhole cover into underground quarries or delicately picking our way in pitch black, water filled tunnels. The result is some of the most comprehensive scanning achieved in Rome, in an unprecedented level of colour, accuracy and detail.

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Guest Speaker - ScanLAB Projects

William from ScanLABS joined us this week for our Professional Practice and Promotion module to tell us more about what they do, how they do it and their practice.

As a student with a keen interest into the photographic space and new technological formats and how this effects the dissemination of photography, I was really looking forward to this talk. 

Firstly he took us through the process of how they create their scans. He managed to explain this incredibly intricate and technologically advanced system to us so we had a basic understanding of what they do. Once we had a bit of an idea as to what they did, he took us through some of their projects.

They've created a really diverse body of work, which is allowed by the versatility of what they do. For example, one of their projects was a complete scan of the Science Museum's Shipping Galleries exhibition that ran for 50 years. This was commissioned by a curator at the museum upon the closure of the exhibition. The benefits of this scan would be so that they preserve this historically rich exhibition and people could enjoy it years after it had moved from the physical exhibition space.

Another project William spoke to us about was the 3D Building Survey. Whilst being an interesting project to view just as a photographer, it demonstrated the possibilities of the capabilities of 3D scanning for architects. This would allow designers and builders to view as space or map without having to physically visit it. The scan is impressive in itself, but their technology has allowed them to create a physical 3D model of the scan. This allows architects to physically interact with the space again and translates technology into something tangible.

This was a fascinating talk and was incredibly helpful to my own studies of how new technology formats are effecting photography and the exhibition space. I look forward to keeping up to date with their current projects.

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