Betty Beaumont, Ocean Landmark VRML World
 
 


Betty Beaumont, Ocean Landmark VRML World, 2000

From 1978 to 1980, Beaumont collaborated with scientists to create Ocean Landmark, an artificial reef three miles off the coast of Fire Island. Wanting to demonstrate this artificial reef’s formation, which entailed dropping 17,000 8 x 8 x 16-inch fly-ash blocks, she recently applied VRML technology to simulate this process, which is not documentable with standard photography.

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