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Projects, collections, and data about the metro area produced by Georgia State University faculty, staff, and students working with and within their communities. More ...

3D Atlanta Chronolens: A Future Peeking Device

GSU student 3D Atlanta visualization project. Here, including a demo of a “future-peeking” device allowing users to see downtown Atlanta streets in 2017, and as they were in the 1920s, including many historically accurate buildings modeled from photos taken at the time. The virtual environment introduces users to many of the historically significant buildings that stood before parking lots came to dominate Atlanta’s downtown.

Creator
GSU student Jack Le and Student Innovation Fellows, with faculty advisor Brennan Collins, February 2017
Category
Arts & Culture
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Le, Jack and Brennan Collins. “'Future Peeking' with the Chronolens in Atlanta Explorer.” Atlanta Studies. July 07, 2017, https://doi.org/10.18737/atls20170707

3D Atlanta of the 1920s Demo, also on YouTube

 

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