This week's lab gave us a taste of what is one of the coolest new ways of visualizing archaeological data, in my opinion - 3D models.
The first task was to create a 3D box representing the study area. Then points representing shovel test pits were extruded upwards into "poles" with 3 different colored sections, each representing the depth of that layer in that particular test pit. Then rasters were created from the data, and an interpolated surface resulted, showing each layer as a continuous surface with elevation based on the original point data.
A third task was to do a fly-through of the 3D scene showing the extruded test pits. Here is a link to the video. Clearly I am not a fantastic pilot - more practice is necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUhG8E3kM0
The last task involved taking a series of points representing the path of a proposed pipeline that would cut across the study area, and extruding them to show the levels of each layer at each point in the cross section/proposed path. For some reason the shapefile with the elevations did not have z values, so I wasn't able to extrude the points and complete this part.
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