ABSTRACT
For six months in 1893, Chicago was the center of the universe. People flocked to the city to experience the grandeur and spectacle of the World’s Columbian Exposition. They exhausted themselves exploring enormous exhibition halls filled with the latest technological advances, art from around the world, and every kind of product imaginable. In the United States, the World’s Columbian Exposition is widely studied. Architectural historians consider it a touchstone for the American Renaissance and City Beautiful movements; in art history, it is revered for the unprecedented number of renowned artists and architects that worked collaboratively to realize the vision of the exposition organizers. Art and architectural historians, public historians, and others researching long-demolished or significantly altered environments or structures have embraced sources-based modeling. In contrast to this largely manual approach, reality-based models are generated with data captured from physical artifacts and sites, whether from photographs, scanners, or sensors.
