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JOURNAL

Build logs from the workshop — digital twins, survey-grade 3D, procedural systems, and the mistakes that taught us the methodology.

From PS2 to Photoreal in One Day
OPERATION: HERO LADDER2026-07-21

From PS2 to Photoreal in One Day

Our digital twin of Montauk Point looked like an early PS2 game. One day later it did not. The ladder: path tracing, a physical sky, procedural trees, and a living ocean.

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We Measured a Lighthouse From Space
OPERATION: GROUND TRUTH2026-07-21

We Measured a Lighthouse From Space

Survey documents said 110 feet 6 inches. Photogrammetry said 34 meters. A public lidar point cloud settled it to within one percent — and taught us a measurement doctrine.

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