Rust and Lasers: The 3D Preservation of a National Treasure by Dr. Lori Walters

Rust and Lasers: 3D Preservation of a

National Treasure

Presenters: Michelle Adams – UCF/IST Ross Davison – CyArk Dr. Lori C. Walters – UCF/IST

SCANNING TEAM:

MICHELLE ADAMS, JUSTIN BARTON, LORI WALTERS, ALEX ZELENIN

San Francisco 2013: What a difference a year can make …

New York State Pavilion 1964/65 New York World’s Fair

Tent of Tomorrow and Astro-View Towers

Designed by renowned 20th

Century American architect

Philip Johnson, the New York

State Pavilion in Flushing

Meadows-Corona Park,

Queens, NY remains one of

only a handful of architectural

links to the 1964/65 New York

World’s Fair.

New York State Pavilion Construction

New York State Pavilion

Appearance June 2014

In the fifty years since the closing

of the Fair, this once majestic

calling card to the future has

deteriorated into an urban ruin

whose ultimate fate remains

unknown.

Pavilion Interior Today

Before the efforts of the volunteer NYSP paint crew Terrazzo Floor

New York State Pavilion On-Site

New York State Pavilion Scanner Placement

Scanner placement for Tent

of Tomorrow capture.

Beneath the Paint

Comparison S120 and X330

S120 X330

Astroview Towers & Tent of Tomorrow

New York State

Pavilion On-Site

Start Video

New York State Pavilion

Pavilion model as it would have appeared during the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair

Model by Alex Zelenin

Spring 2015: Underground Home

Next: Apollo/Saturn V

Thank You CyArk Joseph Romano and Langan Engineering FARO - Jerry Hardy, Shawn Smith & Ro Sasser City of New York Department of Parks & Recreations - Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Queens Museum National Science Foundation The People for the Pavilion Matthew Silva Justin Barton Bill Cotter All those who supported the effort on KickStarter - a very special thank you