We live in a 3D world.
More and more, people want high quality 3D visuals--especially as video games, electronic products and movies evolve to 3D as their default format.
NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION helps museums and businesses move forward to keep up in this fast-growing field by making their entry into the 3D world easy and effective.
MAKE 3D VISIONS REAL
Here are the basic steps we use:
1. We scan the object of interest to capture the three-dimensional data. This can be anything from a microscopic fossil to an entire building.
2. We use the scanned data to generate a 3D model which is transferred and viewed on the computer.
3. We can then display this 3D model on the internet, on a television monitor, or it can be output to a 3D printer and an exact copy can be made of the object at any scale.
4. We assist the museum or business with the effective display of the 3D virtualization in exhibits, trade shows, advertisements, websites and other uses.
HISTORY
NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION brings together the skills and expertise of partners Ralph Chapman, Dave Modl, and Linda Deck. The various related areas we represent form a company with complete services and reliability in 3D virtualization.
From the Smithsonian to Los Alamos--for museums and businesses across the country--our expertise in handling fragile, valuable and important objects as well as our skills in the latest 3D technology make us a perfect fit for our clients. Whether it is a scan of SUE™, the giant T. rex for the Field Museum in Chicago, or a small, 7,000-year-old knapped dart for the New Mexico Palace of the Governors, our established techniques make sure objects are treated safely and the results are the highest in scientific and artistic accuracy.
photo:Triceratops©Smithsonian Institution
PEOPLE
We are what makes NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION unique.
Ralph Chapman is a paleontologist and technologist with more than 25 years of experience working in museums and with 3D technology. He pioneered the introduction of 3D systems in museums, starting in the mid-1980s with a Polhemus magnetic resonance 3D point digitizer and continuing with 3D applications in paleontology and archaeology. He was one of the founders of the Triceratops Project, the creation of the first true digital dinosaur, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and later founded the Idaho Virtualization Laboratory. He specializes in the virtualization of objects, especially those that need great care in handling.
Dave Modl is a data visualization specialist with more than 25 years of experience working in multidimensional data representation at the US Air Force Research Laboratory, University of New Mexico Engineering School (MS-EE) and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dave has extensive experience in developing systems for the presentation of data, including Stereo-3D immersive systems, like LANL's RAVE and La Cueva Grande (43 Mpixel) and many-panel wall display systems, like LANL's PowerWall Theater. Dave has also developed single-user stereo-3D display systems.
Linda Deck is a paleontologist and museum professional with over 25 years of experience. She has specialized in interpreting natural history objects and topics, especially in geology and paleontology. She has extensive experience in planning, developing, building and marketing exhibits ranging in size from single panel displays to exhibitions like the 18,000 square feet Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She has comprehensive experience in including 3D technology in exhibitions and other museum projects, and was project manager of the Triceratops project and exhibit.
photo left to right: Dave Modl, Linda Deck, Ralph Chapman
APPROACH
As paleontologists, Ralph Chapman and Linda Deck know how to handle fragile, valuable and important objects.
They have an established set of protocols for working efficiently with museum-quality specimens while making sure each is treated safely and goes through the process nondestructively.
NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION's mission is to enable more museums and businesses to take advantage of 3D visualizations. We can assemble and present various elegant options to provide 3D solutions to clients within their budgets.
Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time
NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION worked with the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) on their new exhibit "Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time" housed in the Palace of the Governors. NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION scanned a 17th century earring and a 7,000-year-old projectile point (dart). The project included scanning, 3D virtual model-building, and developing an inexpensive display technology for the exhibit.
Object images © NMDCA
The SUE™ Project
Through the affiliated company Deck & Chapman, LLC, Ralph Chapman and Linda Deck were contracted by the Field Museum to manage and enact scanning the 43-foot-longTyrannosaurus rexskeleton known as SUE™. The skeleton was scanneden totoduring normal museum hours in front of visitors using an area laser scanner owned by the Chicago Police Department, A full virtual skeleton model was built for research and exhibition purposes, and also to be used as a template for final placement of individual bones that were scanned using other devices at a higher resolution. This project is on-going.
Object image© The Field Museum
SmithsonianTriceratopsProject
This project created the first true digital dinosaur in the mid-late 1990s based on the SmithsonianTriceratopsskeleton at the National Museum of Natural History--the first-ever mounted horned dinosaur. The project was conceived and proposed by NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION's Ralph Chapman and Art Andersen of Virtual Surfaces, and had NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION's Linda Deck as its project manager. It used multiple scanning devices--including CT, laser and white light scanners--and used rapid prototyping technology extensively in generating miniature skeletons, a 7-foot-long skull, and mirror-imaged full-sized bones. Outcomes included a bronze skull currently on display outside the NMNH, a thoroughly revised full mount in a redesigned exhibit area, and extensive press coverage, including TV news and science programs and magazine covers.
Object images here & on Welcome page © Smithsonian Institution Covers © Computer Graphics World
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
This is one of the preeminant research institutions in the U.S.
NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION's Linda Deck is Director of LANL's Bradbury Science Museum, and is responsible for interpreting the Lab's broad range of science and technology research and accomplishments through the museum's exhibits and programs.
NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION's Dave Modl has worked at LANL for more than 15 years developing immersive systems and Stereo-3D technology for scientific research and data visualization.
Photos © LANL
Idaho Virtualization Laboratory (IVL)
This was a research laboratory housed within the Idaho Museum of Natural History and Idaho State University founded, funded, and managed by NEW MEXICO VIRTUALIZATION's Ralph Chapman for three years. The IVL developed 3D technology for application in natural history museums.
Photo © IMNH
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Make 3D Visions Real
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