Visualization
by: Sam Lytle
Civil Engineering Still Lags Architecture in Visualization
This is How We Catch Up THIRTY YEARS AND ONE DAY OLD
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orking as an employee and walking across a scorching hot campus wasn’t where I wanted to be on my 30th birthday, but there I was. I remember the day vividly, not just because it was my 30th birthday but because the civil engineering/construction company was working for had hired me to start a visualization group and we had an important meeting that day. Not only were we trying to secure a contract to provide 3D
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visualization services for a research project, but the meeting was on the campus of my alma mater, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It was a walk I had done hundreds of times before as a student- westward across campus, passing the music buildings and to the engineering college. This time, however, I was an employee and my reflection walking in business casual alongside a co-worker is seared in my memory as I looked over at a building with reflective windows. It’s the same set of windows I had looked at my reflection
AUGIWORLD Magazine | November 2021 augi.com
