Browsing VAST09: The 10th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage by Title

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    • Reconstruction of Large Cultural Heritage Sites from Archived Maps 

      Laycock, Robert G.; Laycock, Stephen D.; Day, Andrew M. (The Eurographics Association, 2009)
      Reconstructions of large cultural heritage sites, at multiple time periods, facilitate public awareness, enable the visualisation of regeneration proposals, and assist archaeologists in establishing the validity of a ...

    • Recreating Early Islamic Glass Lamp Lighting 

      Jr., Joseph T. Kider; Fletcher, Rebecca L.; Yu, Nancy; Holod, Renata; Chalmers, Alan; Badler, Norman I. (The Eurographics Association, 2009)
      Early Islamic light sources are not simple, static, uniform points, and the fixtures themselves are often combinations of glass, water, fuel and flame. Various physically based renderers such as Radiance are widely used ...

    • Serious Gaming with VENUS-PD: A Virtual Submarine for Accessing Europe's Sunken Archaeological Treasures 

      Chapman, Paul Michael; Bale, Kim; Drap, Pierre (The Eurographics Association, 2009)
      Computer graphics have been used successfully for a number of years to help improve our understanding of both offshore marine activities and land based archaeological sites. 'Marine visualization' has traditionally been ...

    • Structural and Lighting Models for the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Crete 

      Papadopoulos, Constantinos; Earl, Graeme P. (The Eurographics Association, 2009)
      The importance of death to the living is of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines. This paper describes a computer-based research project undertaken to create a series of alternative readings of the dataset from ...

    • The Virtual Reconstruction and Daylight Illumination of the Panagia Angeloktisti 

      Happa, Jassim; Artusi, Alessandro; Dubla, Piotr; Bashford-Rogers, Tom; Debattista, Kurt; Hulusic, Vedad; Chalmers, Alan (The Eurographics Association, 2009)
      High-fidelity virtual reconstructions can be used as accurate 3D representations of historical environments. After modelling the site to high precision, physically-based and historically correct light models must be ...