Movies of the Construction of the Centre for Computing and Engineering

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Video

AVI movies are shot on a Canon S30 digital camera in movie-mode which is capable of 30 seconds of video at 15fps at 320x200, approximately 6 MB each.

Excavation & Drilling
	Nov. 11, 2002: Removal of the asphalt.		Feb. 19, 2003: Dump-trucks arriving to remove rubble.		Feb. 2003: Rig used to drill holes for the shoring [1].		Feb. 2003: Drilling rig & other equipment [2].		Feb. 2003: Backhoe excavating the south end of the lot.
	Feb. 2003: Clearing rubble [1].		Feb. 2003: Loading rubble into dump-truck [2].		Feb. 2003: Drilling Rig drills hole [1].		Feb. 2003: Cement truck moves in [2].		Feb. 2003: Cement is poured [3].
	Feb. 2003: More drilling [4].		Feb. 2003: Aligning drill bit [1].		Feb. 2003: Attaching drill bit [2].		Feb. 2003: Raising the drill [3].		Feb. 2003: Drilling de-watering system [4].
Foundation
	May 5, 2003: South stairwell concrete delivered via crane [1].		May 5, 2003: South stairwell concrete being poured [2].
	Jun 6, 2003: Concrete is loaded [1].		Jun 6, 2003: Crane takes the concrete [2].		Jun 6, 2003: Waiting for the crane [3].		Oct 4, 2003: Pouring the foundation [4].
Cranes in Action
	Oct 4, 2003: Crane moving forms [1].		Oct 4, 2003: Crane moving forms [2].		Oct 4, 2003: Crane moving forms [3].
Laying Bricks
	Apr 22, 2004: Delivery [1].		Apr 22, 2004: Strapping [2].		Apr 22, 2004: Start winch-up [3].		Apr 22, 2004: Winch-up [4].		Apr 22, 2004: Bobcat unloading [1].

Timelapse

Timelapse movies are JPEG captures (approximately 65KB per image) taken from a video camera atop the Quad (courtesy Matthew Burpee) at 1 frame per minute, between 8:00AM and 5:00PM, at 640x480 (except where otherwise specified).

• April, 2003 - February, 2004, Latest Timelapse: (640x480, 6 MB MPEG, 1 frame per day). This footage has a few frames from April and May and beginning June 12th, daily footage until the present. This movie is updated monthly. Continuous capture of the construction did not begin until June 12th as we were configuring a server with enough disk-space to capture a year's worth of footage (7GB). In this footage, each frame, taken at 3:00pm, is multiplied 8 times to slow the frame rate enough to make it viewable (encoding time: 5 minutes on a Sun Blade 2000, 900MHz UltraSPARC III).

• Hoarding Removal, (8:00AM-4:00PM; 3.6 MB MPEG). On June 23rd, 2004 the hoarding along Church Street was removed.

• Red Crane Removal, (10:30AM-4:00PM; 9.2 MB MPEG). On Sunday, Feb. 29th, 2004 the red crane was dismantled. Unfortunately, the camera does not show the crane arm and cabin being dismantled. (Encoding time: 10 minutes on a 900MHz Sun Blade 2k.)

• September 23, 2003, (8:00AM-5:00PM; 4 MB MPEG) The pouring of the ground floor at the north end.

• April 15, 2003, (5:40PM-6:40PM; 1.3 MB MPEG) A lone backhoe digs, as the shadow of the setting sun creeps across the empty lot. (This was the first mpeg encoded as a proof of concept using the Berkeley MPEG Tools)

• May 12-21, 2003, (320x200 15.9 MB MPEG). This is a timelapse that spans an entire week and two days (also including some footage of the site at approximately 9:00PM). On sunny days, note how the sun rises across the trees on the right and moves across the site, and how the red crane's shadow changes during the day (encoding time: 10 minutes on a 400MHz UltraSPARC).

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Movies and Commentary: Luis Fernandes.