Economic Development News

Modeling and Simulation in Williamsburg, Virginia

Friday, April 23, 2010

See where technology and colonial America are intersecting.

Virtual Williamsburg is an ongoing initiative to create a 3D computer model of Virginia's capital in 1776 as the backdrop for key events leading to the American Revolution as well as at other important periods in the town's history. Reconstructing Williamsburg virtually will involve modeling a range of buildings, from standing eighteenth-century structures to archaeological sites with no above-ground remains, as well as recreating the ravine-filled topography which has been smoothed out over time.

Article from the Virginia Society AIA Inform Magazine | www.ReadInform.com

Colonial Williamsburg web site overview of the Virtual Williamsburg project