{"id":1524,"date":"2013-01-22T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/makingof\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2013-01-22T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:28:18","slug":"the-making-of-the-digital-el-camino-real-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/2013\/01\/22\/the-making-of-the-digital-el-camino-real-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making Of&#8230; The Digital El Camino Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure  id=\"attachment_1607\" class=\"wp-caption right\" style=\"max-width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/images5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1607\" title=\"\" alt=\"Mission Dolores, San Francisco, established 1776 on El Camino Real.\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/images5.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission Dolores, San Francisco, established 1776 on El Camino Real.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Traverse the 600-mile trail that connects California\u2019s 21 missions. Peer behind an ornate mission altarpiece that, for more than two centuries, has hidden murals painted by the Ohlone Indians. Uncover the mysteries of Mission Dolores\u2019 ancient cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.cyark.org\/\">CyArk<\/a>, a non-profit digital scanning company based in Oakland, is creating the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.cyark.org\/el-camino-real-map\">digital El Camino Real<\/a>, documenting some of the oldest buildings and historic sites in California.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F75133350\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like Interstate 101<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cSome people think the Camino Real means the Royal Road of Jesus in California,&#8221; says Andrew Galvan, curator of Mission Dolores, San Francisco. \u201cNo. It was the King\u2019s Highway, the King of Spain\u2019s highway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mission Dolores, founded in 1776, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and one of the first sites along the historic El Camino Real to be scanned and documented by CyArk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you step out the front door of Mission Dolores you are on the El Camino Real,\u201c says Andrew. &#8220;It was a public road, like Interstate 101. All the California Missions are connected. Wherever you got on it, the road led you to the Viceroy\u2019s Palace in Mexico City.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_1570\" class=\"wp-caption right\" style=\"max-width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/bamiyan-buddha-300x254.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1570\" title=\"\" alt=\"Bamiyan Buddha, 6th Century, Afghanistan. Destroyed by the Taliban, 2001.\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/bamiyan-buddha-300x254.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/bamiyan-buddha-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/bamiyan-buddha-300x254-160x135.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/bamiyan-buddha-300x254-240x203.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bamiyan Buddha, 6th Century, Afghanistan. Destroyed by the Taliban, 2001.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>CyArk&#8217;s Laser Scanning Mission<br \/>\n<\/strong>CyArk has digitally preserved over 70 sites around the world from Pompeii in Italy, to Tikal in Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe use a 3 D laser scanner that sends out a pulsed laser beam and captures billions of points of these structures at a rate of about 100,000 points a second,\u201d explains Elizabeth Lee who directs operations at CyArk.\u00a0These sites are at risk, endangered due to everyday exposure to the elements, vandalism, war, urbanization, poorly managed tourism, catastrophic events, and general neglect.<\/p>\n<p>The non profit organization was founded in 2003 by <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.cyark.org\/ben-kacyra-people\">Ben<\/a> and Barbara Kacyra after they sold their technology company that had developed\u00a0the first fully integrated laser 3D imaging, mapping, modeling, and CAD system which is currently used worldwide in architecture, engineering and construction, entertainment and crime forensics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was right at the time that the Bamiyam Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban,\u201d remembers Barbara Kacyra. \u201cThere was no 3 dimensional documentation of them. We said, \u2018How can we use this technology to help architects, archaeologists, and preservationists get better tools than tape measures and a clip boards and a pencils to go in and document these heritage sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hidden Mural Revealed<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_1595\" class=\"wp-caption right\" style=\"max-width: 200px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/IMG_2363.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1595\" title=\"\" alt=\"Historic carved altarpiece from Mexico installed in front of mural painted by Indians.\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/IMG_2363-300x449.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historic carved altarpiece from Mexico installed in front of mural painted by Indians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes new things are revealed during the scanning process. At Mission Dolores, CyArk worked hard to get behind the very ornately carved\u00a0<em>reredos<\/em>, a false wall in back of the altar that was made in Mexico and shipped to the Mission by boat in 1796. For more than 200 years, the\u00a0<em>reredos<\/em>\u00a0has obscured a mural that was painted by the Indians when the mission was completed in 1791.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s about a two foot space behind the frame where the statues are today,\u201d says Andrew. \u201cVery few have ever been able to see what\u2019s behind. Using fiber optics they\u2019ll be able to get a little pin wheel and be able to photograph. Then you\u2019ll be able to click on say Saint Joachim with your smart phone and boom! You\u2019ll be able to see behind, floor to ceiling, the mural that the Indians painted here at Mission Dolores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about the sites themselves,\u201d says Barbara Kacyra, \u201cIt\u2019s really about the stories. Whether it was Manzanar or Angor Wat, or Pompeii. It\u2019s about the humanness of these sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The History of San Francisco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/Indians-at-the-Misson-brk00000869_24a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1592\" title=\"\" alt=\"Indians-at-the-Misson-brk00000869_24a\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/Indians-at-the-Misson-brk00000869_24a-300x229.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are almost 6000 Indians buried in the Mission Dolores cemetery, relates Andy Galvan, whose relationship to the Mission is much more than Museum Curator. Andrew is an Ohlone Indian whose ancestors were some of the first people baptized, married and buried at the Mission Dolores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you walk around and look at the gravemarkers you\u2019re going to read the history of San Francisco,\u201d he says. \u201cThe 21 California missions are cultural heritage sites. These are our monuments. The Digital El Camino Real is about digitally imagining, about preservation. But it\u2019s also about interpretation. It&#8217;s about what happened at the California Missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/makingof\/2013\/01\/20\/the-making-of-the-digital-el-camino-real-3\/img_2409\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1591\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_1590\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/IMG_2340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1590\" title=\"\" alt=\"Andy Galvan's Ohlone Indian ancestors are buried in the cemetery at Mission Dolores.\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2013\/01\/IMG_2340-300x279.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Galvan&#039;s Ohlone Indian ancestors are buried in the cemetery at Mission Dolores.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traverse the 600-mile trail that connects California\u2019s 21 missions. Peer behind an ornate mission altarpiece that, for more than two centuries, has hidden murals painted by the Ohlone Indians. Uncover the mysteries of Mission Dolores\u2019 ancient cemetery. CyArk, a non-profit digital scanning company based in Oakland, is creating the\u00a0digital El Camino Real, documenting some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/2013\/01\/22\/the-making-of-the-digital-el-camino-real-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Making Of&#8230; The Digital El Camino Real<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11456,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[163,179,208,436,564],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cyark","tag-digital","tag-el-camino-real","tag-mission","tag-scanning"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/makingof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}