A volunteer-run museum in Massachusetts used Blender to document the history of the Wiley & Russell Manufacturing Company.
Chris Clawson writes:
We are a small, volunteer staffed museum, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. We'd like to share how we were able to use Blender in telling our story of local industrial history.
The Wiley & Russell Manufacturing Company was one of the first two makers of the world's modern machine thread cutting tools (taps and dies). This summer, we were blessed with access to a rare and fragile set of insurance maps, which made the creation of a historically accurate model possible .
The model and animations were all made in Blender. The quality of art is not as great as compared to many other posts I have seen, here on BlenderNation, but it does accomplish its purpose in providing a way of visually touring a site, long lost to living memory.
The source maps and other interesting details are on our website. We hope you find this use of Blender both entertaining and informative!