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From: fozzard@alumni.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard)
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Subject: Re: Hypermaps
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Date: 14 Feb 91 21:48:39 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.044603.17027@rodan.acs.syr.edu> bwdavies@rodan.acs.syr.edu writes:
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>When I was working at a museum with an extensive photographic collection,
>I started thinking about scanning the photographs into a computer and 
>using the images to create a 'four-dimensional' model of the city.  That
>is, you'd have photographic images of the same areas taken at different
>times, and try to piece them together with old maps to form a model
>that you could move through geographically (3D) and chronologically (4D).

Something almost exactly like this has been done a long time ago by the
MIT media lab (I think) - refer to the Stewart Brand book about them.
It was an interactive video "map" of Aspen, CO


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