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Improving High-Speed Scanning Systems by Photometric Stereo
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
High-speed scanning systems can be extremely valuable for Cultural Heritage applications, especially when large collections of small objects have to be acquired. However, fine details may not be acquired using this technology. ...
Serious Games for Cultural Heritage: the GaLA Activities
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
The European Union is increasingly investing in new techniques for the acquisition, preservation and fruition of Virtual Heritage. In addition, Serious Games (games designed with an educational purpose) are an emerging way ...
Visualizing Williamsburg: Modeling an Early American City in 2D and 3D
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1780, has been the subject of extensive research for more than eighty years. However this research has never been assimilated to look at the development of this planned ...
A Blender Open Pipeline for a 3D Animated Historical Short Film
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
''APA and the History of Bologna'' is the first 3D stereo movie made with Blender according to high philological standards and related to the history of an entire city with four different geo-referenced historical digital ...
Connecting Information as Navigation Paths for Exploring Digital Video Collections
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
The way information is presented to users is of great importance in today's digital world. This is especially true for data collections that are rich in information that is not always easily understood. In this paper we ...
The Petit Trianon in Versailles: The Virtual, an Historic Reality
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
It is difficult to grasp the complex history of the successive changes made to the furnishings and to the layout of the Petit Trianon. Our ongoing project addresses this challenge. Based on 3D digitizing, high photorealistic ...
Multi-touch Rocks: Playing with Tangible Virtual Heritage in the Museum -- First User Tests
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
More than 50.000 petroglyphs are engraved in rock panels on the flanks of the UNESCO world heritage site Val Camonica (Northern Italy). The engravings are not always visible and are often on steep slopes on which it is ...
A London Charter's Visualization: The Ancient Hellenistic-Roman Theatre in Paphos
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
The paper presents an attempt at reconstructing the architectural history of an ancient building taking into consideration the London Charter's principles. The case-study is the Hellenistic - Roman theatre of Paphos, Cyprus ...
Detection and Classification of Petroglyphs in Gigapixel Images -- Preliminary Results
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
With the advances of digital photography, the number of high quality images of rock panels containing petroglyphs grows steadily. Different time-consuming manual methods to determine and document the exact shapes and spatial ...
Usability Evaluation of a Prototype iPhone App for Osaka Castle Museum: Outcomes and Reflections
(The Eurographics Association, 2011)
The evaluation of the effectiveness of new technologies for cultural heritage is becoming increasingly relevant, as the number of tools and media for public presentation grows rapidly across the world. Amongst these ...