Schreyer speaks at the 2011 Google Geo User Summit United States

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Alexander Schreyer, lecturer in Building and Construction Technology, presented two of his recent UMass-related projects at the first Google Geo User Summit held in the United States where he was an invited speaker. The event took place at the Googleplex (Google's headquarters) in Mountain View, California. His presentations covered: The student-created 3D model of all UMass buildings, which is currently viewable in Google Earth (browse to the "01003" ZIP-code and turn on the "3D Buildings" layer). A crowdsourcing application that lets people submit their favorite places on the UMass campus using Google Maps: "My Favorite Places" (http://www.umass.edu/myfavoriteplaces) You can view his presentations and learn more about the event on his website....
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Infrared visualization to be featured on TV5 science show in Canada

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A 3-dimensional visualization of infrared thermographic imagery of a residence, created by Alexander Schreyer, will be featured on the science show "Science ou Fiction" to be aired on the french-language channel TV5 in Canada. This visualization is based on recent work on applying 2D infrared imagery to interactive 3D models. More details on this project can be found here. The original video file is shown below: 3D Infrared Visualization: Single Family House from Alexander Schreyer on Vimeo....
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UMass in 3D on YouTube

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Google just published a video on the topic "Why do people model for Google Earth?". UMass and Amherst are featured prominently in it. All of the three-dimensional models of the UMass campus buildings were made by students from BMATWT/BCT in NRC, LARP and Architecture at UMass. The models were created as part of Alexander Schreyer's course BMATWT 420 "Advanced topics in CAD". You can watch the video below:...
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BCT Students Model UMass for Google Earth

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Students: Various from BMATWT 497C plus students from Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) as well as Architecture+Design (A+D) Faculty Sponsor: Alexander Schreyer Project Type: Class & extracurricular Year: 2007-2010 A group of students from the UMass programs of Building Materials and Wood Technology (BMATWT), Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) as well as Architecture+Design (A+D) under the supervision of Alexander Schreyer, Faculty member in Building Materials and Wood Technology and Architecture+Design, have created a 3-dimensional model of almost all buildings on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. In total, approximately 100 buildings were modeled in Google SketchUp, a freely available 3-dimensional CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software and then exported to Google Earth, a free GIS-based (Geographic Information System) terrain-viewer. The campus buildings will be available in Google Earth through the “3D Buildings” layer later this summer. This 3D-model can be used for visualization of new campus planning, visitor orientation, “dorm previews” for incoming students and much more.The process of creating the digital models involved first the drawing of...
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3D CAD Models of Campus Buildings as Aide for Orientation

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Student: John W. Michalski (M.S. stud.) Faculty Supervisor: Alexander Schreyer Project Type: Independent Study Year: 2005 Description: In 2005, the university launched a new NAAB accredited Architecture+Design program in the Department of Art & Art History. To promote the program and the newly offered M.Arch., a new website was created. Like any departmental website, this one featured faculty pages. To complement the faculty office room number information (e.g. "Holdsworth 127") visually, transparent 3-dimensional models of the respective buildings were created in which the office was shown as a red box. The 3D-CAD software SketchUp was chosen for this task, since it allows for an intuitive creation of 3D geometry and provides the required visualization capability. All buildings were modeled rather coarse with floor slabs and walls only. Then all components were assigned a transparent material. Finally, the different views were exported as JPGs. Documents: The images can be seen on the Architecture+Design website on the faculty pages. The following are some samples:...
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