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The V & A's mysterious Mamluk minbar
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)This paper concentrates on the historical importance of a large furniture object, a pulpit from a mosque (minbar). During the development of 3D imaging practice in the V&A Museum, this large object was selected as a candidate ... -
Towards a Vitruvian Shape Grammar for Procedurally Generating Classical Roman Architecture
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)The ability to automatically generate urban virtual environments using procedural methods is important for anyone who needs to create plausible virtual representations of human settlements, and these techniques are used ... -
Virtual Romans: Virtual Reconstruction of Roman Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum) 210 AD
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)This paper presents preliminary results and progress on the Virtual Romans project. The aim of this project is to explore the potential for creative technologies to present life in Roman Leicester (Ratae Corieltavorum) ... -
Towards an Affordable Markerless Acquisition of Intangible Contemporary Dance Choreographies at Large-Scaled Stages
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)While the documentation and preservation of rigid cultural heritage objects has become much easier with technologies such as 3D scanning or photogrammetry technologies, the digitalization of 3D intangible moving content ... -
Conveying Archaeological Contexts to Museum Visitors: Case Study Pergamon Exhibition
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)Reconnecting the audience of an exhibition to the archaeological context of ancient artefacts and explaining their reception histories is a great challenge. Employing digital devices to support the understanding of connections ... -
Low Cost System for Management and Visualization of the Medieval and Modern Heritage of Madrid (Spain)
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)This paper approaches the question of the management of heritage information by using low-cost systems. The aim is to reduce costs by using Free Software -if possible, Open Source software, for the management and visualization ... -
Mobile Technologies and the Use of Augmented Reality for Saving the Immaterial Heritage
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)The present paper discusses the importance of immaterial heritage in the contemporary world and its preservation and transmission using AR techniques. A special case of immaterial heritage is represented by traditional ... -
The Use of Traditional and Computer-based Visualization in Archaeology: a User Survey
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)Visualization methods are commonly used during the successive stages of the archaeological process. However, it is difficult to determine which methods are more intensively used in each stage and, also, which stage of the ... -
Including Links in Linked Data: CIDOC-CRM and the Fourth T. Berners-Lee Rule
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)The latest advancements in the semantic technologies are pushing many scholars towards new challenges, mainly in the field of data-sharing and data-integration. The introduction of the Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm has ... -
Browsing Historical Pompeian Watercolours Through a Google Earth-based Meta Interface: Luigi Bazzani's Exhibition
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)A Google-Earth-based meta interface provides the traditional text-based access to cultural repo DB with an easy and quick way for gaining insight into the full available data. Developed at Cineca for the Department of ... -
Visualising Stonehenge: A Virtual Archaeology
(The Eurographics Association, 2012)This paper summarises the results of a virtual archaeological analysis on the stones at Stonehenge. Based on laser scan survey, all observations and discoveries were made in the virtual world. The results of this project ...