{"id":114764,"date":"2020-10-20T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/google-open-sources-3d-system-that-shows-how-places-looked-in-the-past"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:05:11","slug":"google-open-sources-3d-system-that-shows-how-places-looked-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/google-open-sources-3d-system-that-shows-how-places-looked-in-the-past","title":{"rendered":"Google Open-Sources 3D System That Shows How Places Looked in the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-open-sources-3d-system-that-shows-how-places-looked-in-the-past.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Head Image Caption: Street level view of 3D-reconstructed Chelsea, Manhattan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Historians and nostalgic residents alike take an interest in how cities were constructed and how they developed \u2014 and now there\u2019s a tool for that. Google AI recently launched the open-source browser-based toolset \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/re.city\/\"><em>r\u01dd<\/em><\/a>,\u201d which was created to enable the exploration of city transitions from 1800 to 2000 virtually in a three-dimensional view.<\/p>\n<p>Google AI says the name <em>r\u01dd<\/em> is pronounced as \u201cre-turn\u201d and derives its meaning from \u201creconstruction, research, recreation and remembering.\u201d This scalable system runs on Google Cloud and Kubernetes and reconstructs cities from historical maps and photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Image Caption: Street level view of 3D-reconstructed Chelsea, Manhattan Historians and nostalgic residents alike take an interest in how cities were constructed and how they developed \u2014 and now there\u2019s a tool for that. Google AI recently launched the open-source browser-based toolset \u201cr\u01dd,\u201d which was created to enable the exploration of city transitions from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}