WWI France Project

Creative Director and 3D Scanning Specialist
France, Summer 2016
Funded by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
~Awarded tenure in spring, 2016

In this ongoing project, I am creating an augmented and virtual reality tour of World War I sites in France. My role as part of the TransAtlantic Teacher Scholars Project was to create 3D representations of a selection of sites important to the WWI American story at the Meuse-Argonne, France along with five other important sites. These sites trace the generally northward movement of the American Expeditionary Force during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive from September 26th to November 11th, 1918. The sites scanned include the jump off point for the American 35th Division at Vauquois Hill, the ruined village of Montfaucon, the Cote Dame Marie, and the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in Romagne where more than 14,200 Americans lost their lives in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. 3D images of five sites at four locations were scanned using Lidar, which illuminates an object with a laser, then analyzes the light that is reflected. The resulting visualizations help viewers gain a spatial understanding of the sites and spark an interest in the greater narrative that the sites are a part of.

Collaborators: David Hicks (College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences) and Todd Ogle (Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies) with funding from the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).