3D Urban Models, Circa 1616 AD

(((Not only is it an awesome pre-steampunk
GoogleEarth fly-thru, this prescient video is eight-year-old dead-software dead-media, to boot! I think I just blew my cognitive-dissonance allowance for an entire week.)))

Link: Digital Urban: Extracting a 3D Model From Drawings - SketchUp.

Extracting a 3D Model From Drawings - SketchUp

"Constructing 3D models of buildings is all about extracting the geometry from images using photogrammetric techniques. As such, although it goes against basic geometric principles it also lends itself to historic reconstruction via referenced hand drawn images.Over eight years ago we used the now sadly demised software CANOMA to create a view of London in 1616...