Front carriage
A cannon was made in such a way that it was nearly in balance around the wheel axis. This means that one man could lift a cannon and attach it to a horse-drawn front carriage to transport the cannon. As a 24-pound cannon weighs about 3000 kg, this works well on flat terrain. Getting the cannon up the walls was done with a capstan and a lot of man-power. Volume 3 of the Memores d'artillerie by Su…
Creator
- visualdimension
Subject
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights
- Visual Dimension bvba
Creation date
- 2023
- 2023
Temporal
- 1640
- 17th century CE
- 1640
Places
- Fort Lillo
Provenance
- The 3D model has been created in Blender based on multiple drawings from the military manual of Surirey de Saint-Remy (BnF), videos and images of 17th-century re-enactment of military events and the publication “De Forten Lillo en Liefkenshoek” by Han Leune. This model has been integrated into an interactive virtual world, based on the Unity3D platform, depicting the fortress of Lillo, in the year 1640.; Animations; Polygonal modelling; Texture mapping; Virtual reconstruction
Identifier
- share3d:1436
- share3d:1436
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- en
Is part of
- Share3D
- Belgium
Relations
- https://hanleune.nl/de-forten-lillo-en-liefkenshoek
- https://fortlillo.blog/2023/10/28/de-kanonnen-van-fort-lillo/
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1513244f?rk=64378;0
Year
- 2023
- 1640
Providing country
- Belgium
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2024-02-12T16:42:25.977Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-12-09T08:53:52.112Z