Legacies of an Old Design: Reconstructing Rapid’s Lines Using 3D Modelling Software
Author(s): Ivor R. Mollema; Jennifer F McKinnon
Year: 2016
Summary
The Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties Project was conceived to evaluate new ways of investigating the history of Europeans in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. As a result, several of the formative maritime archaeology projects conducted on Australia’s early colonial shipwrecks were revisited to apply new techniques, such as digital modelling software, to the legacy data. This paper outlines using Rhinoceros 3D modelling software to generate a three-dimensional model of the American China trader Rapid, built in Boston in 1807 and shipwrecked in 1811 at Point Cloates, WA. Comparison with original reconstruction designs created over 30 to 40 years ago will demonstrate the usefulness of revisiting data to apply new technologies.
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Legacies of an Old Design: Reconstructing Rapid’s Lines Using 3D Modelling Software. Ivor R. Mollema, Jennifer F McKinnon. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434549)
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Keywords
General
3D modelling
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China trade
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Shipwreck
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Colonial
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 159