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begin planning for future efforts to restore and preserve the Lyon-Martin House to ensure its rightful place in the
legacy of San Francisco’s built environment.” Drones, Scans, and Archival Pix The CyArk team produced the roughly 20-minute tour of the LyonMartin House through the use of drone imagery of the outside, digital camera shots of the interiors, and scans using Lidar, which stands for Light Detection
and Ranging technology. They were given three days of access to the house. “I thought it was very powerful. Right now it is an empty house, but being inside it with Shayne, she could share these powerful stories with us,” said Ristevski. “The house still had energy.” They used archival photos of the home in the archives of the GLBT
Historical Society to recreate what the rooms looked like when Lyon and Martin lived in them, and also incorporated songs the women would have listened to or played during gatherings. Several historians and Mon serve as tour guides throughout the video, which also includes parts of an oral history that Lyon and Martin recorded in their later years. “It would have been nice to have seen [the house] in its prime, but I think we were able to bring some of that back with the video,” said Ristevski. At Home Capturing Reality While working on his master of science degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003, Ristevski first became involved with CyArk, assisting on projects it was doing in Peru and Guatemala. CyArk founding director Ben Kacyra was also a co-founder and CEO of Cyra Technologies, a local technology company that had developed the first fully integrated laser 3D imaging, mapping, modeling, and CAD system. Kacyra wanted to use the technology to digitally preserve various countries’ cultural heritage sites and founded CyArk. Ristevski left CyArk in 2006 to start his own business called Earthmine, a 3D street-mapping company, out of the Noe Valley home he was living in at the time. Nokia acquired it in 2012 for its own mapping company called HERE and hired Ristevski as its vice president of reality capture and processing. He left in 2016 to take over leader-
When not playing Indiana Jones, CyArk CEO John Ristevski is exploring sites remotely from his home in Noe Valley.
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