From Cloud to Valley: Making a Civil War Era Model of the Potomac River Gorge
I've been working on developing a 3D landscape of a portion of the Potomac River gorge near Chain Bridge in Washington, DC. I want to give an impression of what the area looked like during the Civil War, and show how the defenses of Washington (Fort Ethan Allen, Fort Marcy, and Battery Vermont) protected one of the few bridges over the Potomac River at the time. I based the model on contemporary lidar data, modified based on an 1864 Army Corps of Engineers Map. Below I will d
