
Joshua Cohen is a Principal at Fat Pencil Studio
When I first sat down with the plaintiff in a recent ocean diving injury case, I was baffled by his explanation of what happened. I'm usually pretty quick on the uptake, even for complex, technical issues. But in this case I had no frame of reference to help me visualize the event. How could he explain to someone who's not a commercial diver what it's like to work in the open ocean with 10 foot swells? This was a perfect application for Fat Pencil Studio's SceneViz process.
Section cut through the water showing the diver at work.
Close-up of underwater diver at work.
We started by creating a digital model to roughly explain the scene: a diver straddling a pipe. Then we met via Fuze (a remote collaboration app that allows real time screen sharing) to work out details such as: What was the body position? How close to the end of the pipe? Where was the the pilot boat? After a couple rounds of revisions, we had two illustrations and a series of maps to explain the incident with more clarity and accuracy than would be possible with words alone.
Context map sequence
Context map sequence
Context map sequence
Joshua Cohen is a Principal at Fat Pencil Studio