1. Congratulations! I once worked in the new (fledgling) close-range photogrammetry that he tested and discarded in "Starship Troopers" the Rolleimetric cameras and software (then on 80386 with 80387 math chip, the 486 and then Pentium predecessor) though in the archeology of the Cold Spring Foundry across from West Point Military Academy, NY for the EPA. He tried it to record a "tunnel" set then into a digitized "virtual reality" in order to CGI the "bugs" into the actors staged fight in the tunnel and switched to a laser system or "lidar" to digitize the tunnel as the feet of the bugs sometimes went through the photogrammetrically digitized set (tunnel). I was very happy to read of this use, I had taken many photos and had digitized the archeology of the site that had also produced the "Swamp Angel" a large R.P. Parrott rifled cannon and R.P. Parrott wooden gun platform (it and pintle recovered on grillage in Foundry Cove across from Constitution Island, NY. The island is where a famous overlooked Dutch-American patriot, Bernard Romans, the then colonists armed forces cartographer, drew up plans for the defense of Constitution Island in the Revolutionary War, the name said to predate that conflict) used in the incendiary bombardment of the civilians of Charleston, South Carolina in 1863 during the American Civil War. Herman Melville wrote a poem about "Swamp Angel" though I suspect it might have been over a "crime of passion"... Edits: ("Many years ago there lives in Croton Falls a young girl who was called the "Swamp Angel." She became the wife of General Sickles." "Gen. Daniel Edgar Sickles, a member of Congress, shot Philip Barton Key, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on Feb. 27, 1859" son of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the adapted national anthem) in front of the White House grounds, over her, "Swamp Angel"? (See: Old Guns of New York) Posted at 1:11 PM on Apr 28th 2007 by George Myers (Edits 4/29/07)
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