Digital Archiving of Large 3D Woven Cultural Artifacts

Abstract

Recently, research on digital museums received increased attention. We have worked on the digital archiving of the Gion Festival in Kyoto , focused on the culture of Kyoto, and developed a realtime and direct-touch interaction system for the 3D woven cultural artifact with haptic interface. After the Gion Festival of 2011, the repair work of the Fune-hoko storage was scheduled. Therefore, we created a 3D measurement system for the large 3D woven cultural artifacts with the laser range scanner, and tried to measure and model the 3D woven cultural artifact of the Fune-hoko at high definition in 3D. Most woven cultural artifact of the Fune-hoko is composed of gold thread, glass, cotton, and brilliant embroidery. Thus, 3D measurement is not easy. Therefore, we arbitrarily changed the laser strength according to the material of the fabric and modeled based on the point-based for the real-time rendering. As a result, we could generate the 3D woven cultural artifact models at high definition.