Browsing VAST06: The 7th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage by Issue Date
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WWW-Based Building Information System for "Domus Severiana" Palace at Palatine in Rome by Open Source Software
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)The aim of this research project is the digital documentation of the "Domus Severiana" Palace at Palatine in Rome through the integration of geometrical 3D- and non-geometrical information. The great density of information ... -
Destroying Cultural Heritage: Technical, Emotional and Exhibition Aspects in Simulating Earthquake Effects on a Gothic Cathedral
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)While a significant research effort has been devoted to produce virtual reconstructions of cultural heritage, the issue of reproducing the effects of natural or man-provoked disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods, wars) on ... -
A Parametric Exploration of the Lighting Method of the Hagia Sophia Dome
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)Byzantine church design depended heavily on natural light for the generation of evocative effects supportive of the liturgical acts taking place in it. It appears that there were several effects coordinated in order to ... -
Watermarking and Digital Rights Management - A Pilot DRM System Implementation and Technical Guidelines to Cultural Digitization Projects
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)The issue addressed in this paper is at first a brief presentation of the Technical Guidelines for IPR protection and management applied to Greek cultural digitization projects. Secondly, the work focuses on the analysis ... -
Towards a Photogrammetry and Virtual Reality Based Heritage Information System: A Case Study of Shawbak Castle in Jordan
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)The paper presents an interdisciplinary project which is the first step towards a 3D Geographical Information System (GIS) dedicated to Cultural Heritage with a specific focus application on the Castle of Shawbak, also ... -
Interactive Mobile Assistants for Added-value Cultural Contents
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)Multimedia technologies provide new opportunities for museums to enhance their visitors experience. However, its use brings new challenges for presentation preparation, among which are how to enrich the visit while not ... -
Educative Visuals - Digital Delivery of Architectural Information for (potential) Heritage Buildings
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)The paper proposes models that address current issues and considerations at several key levels relating to treatment of architectural information, its presentation and delivery methods specific to architecture education ... -
Geographical Presentation of Virtual Museum Exhibitions
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)In this paper we present a system, called GeoARCO, which enables presentation of virtual museum exhibitions in a geographical context. The system is partially based on the results of the European project ARCO Augmented ... -
ICT Investment Considerations and their Influence on the Socio-Economic Impact of Heritage Sites
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)The following methodological model can be used as a platform for the study of the impact of information and communications technologies (ICT) at cultural heritage sites. The model has been developed through extensive, ... -
Multi-Resolution Digital 3D Imaging System Applied to the Recording of Grotto Sites: the Case of the Grotta dei Cervi
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)The Grotta dei Cervi is a complex and fragile Neolithic cave where human presence left a large number of unique pictographs and petroglyphs. Detailed documentation necessitates recording it at different levels of details ... -
Real-time Animation of Various Flame Shapes
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)Working on the computer reconstruction of the Gallo-Roman forum of Bavay, we try to improve the feeling of immersion in the virtual environment. One way to achieve this is to provide realistic and dynamic light sources. ... -
Terrestrial Laser Scanner and High-Resolution Camera Registration through Single Image-Based Modeling
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)This paper deals with an important topic: the automatic co-registration of terrestrial laser scanner data and high-resolution digital images. Our approach harnesses the power of a single image-based modeling method developed ... -
Co-registration of Photogrammetric and Laser Scanner Data for Generation of 3D Visual Models
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)Nowadays, most terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) systems provide the facility of mounting a digital camera on the laser scanner. This not only facilitates a means to generate better quality photorealistically textured 3D ... -
Haptic Navigation and Exploration of High Quality Pre-rendered Environments
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)Visualising in real-time high quality virtual environments, which are suitable for cultural heritage and virtual tourism, is often a challenging endeavour. This is primarily, due to the cost of rendering complex architectural ... -
Mosaic Rendering using Colored Paper
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)This paper proposes a new method of simulating colored paper mosaic using computer graphics technologies. This new method focuses on two problems that need to be taken care of in order to simulate colored paper mosaic. The ... -
Restoration of Color in Noh Masks Based on Retinex Algorithm
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)Noh is a famous traditional Japanese dramatic art. The restoration of ancient Noh masks is an important aspect of the preservation of cultural heritage. In this paper, we developed a technique based on Retinex algorithm ... -
Procedural 3D Reconstruction of Puuc Buildings in Xkipché
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)This paper examines how architectural shape grammars can be used to procedurally generate 3D reconstructions of an archaeological site. The Puuc-style buildings found in Xkipché, Mexico, were used as a test-case. We first ... -
High Quality PTM Acquisition: Reflection Transformation Imaging for Large Objects
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)Reflection Transformation Imaging has proved to be a powerful method to acquire and represent the 3D reflectance properties of an object, displaying them as a 2D image. Recently, Polynomial Texture Maps (PTM), which are ... -
New Reflection Transformation Imaging Methods for Rock Art and Multiple-Viewpoint Display
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)We offer two new methods of documenting and communicating cultural heritage information using Reflection Transformation Imaging (RTI). One imaging method is able to acquire Polynomial Texture Maps (PTMs) of 3D rock art ... -
Current Practice in Digital Imaging in UK Archaeology
(The Eurographics Association, 2006)The field of archaeology relies heavily on photography as a way of recording information about sites and artefacts. It is therefore essential that we can have confidence in the photographic record, as any changes over time ...