Los Angeles (Azfamily) – Using AI and new technologies, students from Arizona State University create 3D photos and videos that give you the impression of walking in the middle of the consequences of forest fires.
The technology they used essentially allows you to walk in the area, as if you were there. Students hope that these images will provide a context and help people understand the depth of destruction.
This unique perspective of the consequences of forest fires that burned in Los Angeles earlier this year were created by ASU students as part of the Narrative and emerging media program at ASUBased in downtown.
The graduate student Ashley Buschhorn, who had to evacuate, was one of the students who started Eaton palisades and fires burned 40,000 acres In January and destroyed more than 16,000 buildings.
The team spent 10 days there, using what is called “Gaussian splatian” technology. “You can see the transparent level of detail it provides,” said Buschhorn. “But also the level of devastation. It was just a house after house after house that was just full rubble.”
Buschhorn described what this technology is. “You essentially take images of each angle that you can get from the object, then we put this in certain computer software that uses AI to essentially map these images in space,” she said. “So, once he follows all that, then he is able to Create a 3D model of all this scene that you capture. “”
They also captured 360 videos, creating sequences before and after, using Google Street View to show what the neighborhoods in the past. Buschhorn believes that this perspective allows someone to get into destruction and understand it a little better.
Nonny de la Pena directs the program at ASU. Three years ago, a fire burned his studio in Los Angeles. She says that facing insurance after a fire is difficult. She hopes that fire victims will be able to use these photos and analyzes when submitting complaints with insurance companies.
“When the insurance company told me that you had no receipt for a sofa, I was able to enter this scan and zoom in and show the metal remains of a sofa arm and say:” You can see that it is right “, and then they would pay,” she said. “Knowing the kind of battle I had to cross, I felt that I just wanted to give people tools that I could facilitate the task in their own process.”
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