{"id":14693,"date":"2017-01-18T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:07:39","slug":"3d-scans-of-forth-bridges-to-power-educational-games-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14693","title":{"rendered":"3D scans of Forth Bridges to power educational games and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Incredibly detailed 3D scans of the Forth Bridge will form the basis for interactive games promoting engineering skills for school children, it has been revealed.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First announced in 2014, the \u00a3300,000 scanning project was one of the most challenging and complex 3D scans undertaken anywhere in the world. It has amassed a data-cloud of many billions of dimensionally accurate points on the structures of the Forth Bridge, Forth Road Bridge and the partially built Queensferry Crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Now a further grant of \u00a3425,000 from Transport Scotland has enabled Scottish digital heritage experts to start work on learning games, augmented reality apps, real-time interactive models for virtual headset tours and video fly-throughs for release in 2018, all aimed at developing STEM skills among pupils in Scottish schools.<\/p>\n<p>A video has been produced showing the 3D animation of the Forth Bridge and Forth Road Bridge. The video is available for embedding in websites from the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ikLjgXXAMas\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ikLjgXXAMas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images taken from the 3D animation of the Forth Bridges are available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/a90qmji1hgmlocd\/AADu-9MGf74NO08sWAZeRKzja?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">download HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.gov.scot\/news\/forth-dimension\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Scottish Government article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly detailed 3D scans of the Forth Bridge will form the basis for interactive games promoting engineering skills for school children, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14694,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}