Our computer graphics laboratory

Photographs and text by Marc Levoy
October 9, 1998

Our laboratory is on the ground floor of the Palazzo Bargagli-Petrucci. It consists of two large rooms, one small room, and an architecturally unique grotto. Here is a view of the front room showing the entrance door at right (note the project logo on the glass door), the grotto at center, and the door to the back room at left. Above the grotto is a casement window opening at ground level into the courtyard of the palazzo. Note also the monograms at the base of the vaults.

Here is another view of the front room, this time looking back from the grotto. The desks at left and right belong to Lisa Pacelle, our administrative assistant, and Prof. Marc Levoy, respectively. The artwork on the walls is Lisa's. At center is the door leading to the small room. Our SGI Infinite Reality Engine sits in there.

Turning to the right from the previous view, we can look through a door to our back room, where the real work gets done. Beyond and up one step is a bathroom and a decaying stairway leading up to the palazzo courtyard.

Here is a general view of the back room. In the center of the vaulted ceiling is a nice fresco. At the time these photographs were taken (October 9), two of three shipments of equipment had arrived. At left is our Faro digitizing arm with the Modelmaker laser scanner by 3D Scanners Ltd mounted on it. At right is our Cyrax time-of-flight laser scanner by Cyra Technologies. The Cyberware scanner is still under construction in Monterey.

The logo of our temporary laboratory, adapted from our home campus logo by Jeremy Ginsberg.
"A Firenze" is Italian for "in Florence".

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	Our laboratory is on the ground floor of the Palazzo Bargagli-Petrucci. It consists of two large rooms, one small room, and an architecturally unique grotto. Here is a view of the front room showing the entrance door at right (note the project logo on the glass door), the grotto at center, and the door to the back room at left. Above the grotto is a casement window opening at ground level into the courtyard of the palazzo. Note also the monograms at the base of the vaults.
	Here is another view of the front room, this time looking back from the grotto. The desks at left and right belong to Lisa Pacelle, our administrative assistant, and Prof. Marc Levoy, respectively. The artwork on the walls is Lisa's. At center is the door leading to the small room. Our SGI Infinite Reality Engine sits in there.
	Turning to the right from the previous view, we can look through a door to our back room, where the real work gets done. Beyond and up one step is a bathroom and a decaying stairway leading up to the palazzo courtyard.
	Here is a general view of the back room. In the center of the vaulted ceiling is a nice fresco. At the time these photographs were taken (October 9), two of three shipments of equipment had arrived. At left is our Faro digitizing arm with the Modelmaker laser scanner by 3D Scanners Ltd mounted on it. At right is our Cyrax time-of-flight laser scanner by Cyra Technologies. The Cyberware scanner is still under construction in Monterey.