Young designers use Google SketchUp to recreate Normandy landings

In advance of the anniversary of the Allied landings on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6 1944, the Dominion Institute is holding a competition for young designers. The Institute is challenging designers to model the site of the Juno Beach landings, located near Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, for upload on Google Earth, the downloadable virtual globe program.

Congratulations to the winner of Designing History, Rahul Desai, for his model of HMCS Haida. To view HMCS Haida, click here or on the image below.

To see all the Designing History submissions, click here or follow the link below to the Google 3D Warehouse - Designing History Collection.

The competition is now closed.

Designing History is an initiative of the Dominion Institute.

Awards

The design submitted to the Google SketchUp Forum that is judged to best interpret the events of Juno Beach will receive a cash prize of $1944.00 (CDN) Canadian and be featured on the Dominion Institute and Google SketchUp 3D Challenge websites. Three runners up will receive honourable mentions.

Judging

The designs can include one or more of the following elements of the Juno Beach site. It is recommended that models are low-poly.

• Soldiers (eg. Infantry, Royal Canadian Engineers)
• Artillery (eg. Howitzer, Mortars, Guns)
• Armoured Vehicles (eg. Sherman Tank, the Churchill)
• Landing Craft (eg. Landing Craft Assault, Landing Craft Mechanized)
• Defenses (eg. Concrete Bunkers)
• Ships (eg. Destroyers, Corvettes, Minesweepers, Frigates)
• Topographical Features (eg. Beaches, Hills, Buildings, Waves)

The designs will be awarded based on:

• Quality of the Model
• Completeness of Model
• Level of Detail
• Interpretation and Imagination