Sources:
We used a number of sources for the narrative component of our project. We first got our inspiration for the project from the “Imagine Futures, Forgotten Pasts” exhibit on display at the Perlman Teaching Museum last year. Not only that, but we knew the materials for the exhibit were all located in the Carleton Archives, so we looked for materials related to the Literary Societies in their digital collection. The key sources we found included a narrative history of Carleton, a book of oral histories gathered from graduates, old Algol yearbooks, and scrapbooks donated by alumni.
The origins of our source material for the 3D modeling portion of our project also came directly from the Carleton Archives. The Adelphic Paddle, found in archive records under object label OA00056 was made available to us by Tom Lamb and Abby Merritt, who were integral to setting up the photo-taking environment required to build the image collection for processing and use. All resources made available during the photography process were made available by the archives and the archive staff.
Processes:
With all of these sources gathered from the Archives, we set about crafting a narrative history through traditional textual writing techniques. We also integrated good quality photos that we found into the narrative. The next step was to create the model.
With respect to processing of data assets, we used the free iMazing image converter to obtain a compiled folder of .jpg files in order to make our photo collection compatible with RecapPhoto, our chosen photogrammetry platform. We produced two models: one for the font of the paddle and the other for the back. We exported the two files as .obj files into MetaShape, where we rescaled, trimmed and then aligned the two half-models to form an (albeit imperfect) whole. Our next step was to export the combined model into Sketchfab, publish it to the online catalog, and then obtain the HTML embed code to display it on our WordPress site.
Presentation:
To present our work, we made a WordPress site. We chose One Theme Press as he thought that would be the most aesthetically pleasing. We built a homepage, a team page, a process page(what you are reading now), and a bibliography page. Our homepage contains the main piece of writing with embedded photos from the Carleton Archives as well as our model with the help of SketchFab. Our team page contains links to our respective personal pages as well as our LinkedIns. Our bibliography page contains all of our sources!
