Recontextualisation and Storytelling

Re-contextualisation and storytelling

Dries Nollet

Carlotta Capurro Daniel Pletinckx

Visual Dimension bvba

Belgium

V-MUST is funded by the European Commission under the Community's Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. GA 270404.

The old museum

Bologna archaeological museum

The old museum

Bologna archaeological museum

3D Virtual museums

•  What does 3D offers to virtual museums? –  Digitise existing buildings and objects

–  Recreate and visualise the past –  Digitally restore museum objects

–  Explore virtual spaces

–  See evolution in time until today

•  Monuments & landscapes are essential part of virtual museums •  Provide context of museum objects

•  Provide a visual reference framework for 2 people out of 3

Ename, Belgium

Archaeological site of Ename, Belgium

Ename, Belgium

Archaeological site and village of Ename, Belgium

Ename

4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1065)

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Ename 1020

Resistivity measurements at the archaeological site of Ename

Ename 1020

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Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, before the abbey phase

Ename 1020

Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, trade settlement

Ename 1020

Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, harbour and castrum

Ename 1020

Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, harbour and Saint Salvator church

Ename 1020

Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, market place and Saint Salvator church

Workflow

Conceptual model of reconstructed buildings and terrain features

Workflow

Top view map in Photoshop

Workflow

Separation of terrain types in layers in Photoshop

Workflow

Creation of height maps through painting in Photoshop

Workflow

Scaled height maps in Photoshop (16 bit TIFF)

Workflow

Terrain types and applied height map (Vue)

Workflow

Terrain without vegetation (Vue)

Workflow

Terrain with water and vegetation after population (Vue)

Workflow

Terrain with vegetation, buildings and (animated) objects (Collada)

4D visualisation: 1020-1730

Procedural landscape simulation in Vue (1730)

Interactive storytelling

•  Exploration through POIs (points of interest) •  Panorama based (TimeScope)

•  ObjectVR based (TimeLine)

•  Natural interaction – body (Kinect) •  Natural interaction – hands (Leap)

•  Spatial Augmented Reality

•  Tangible Interfaces •  Virtex (museum objects) •  Virtex Light (monuments)

Ename TimeScope

Ename TimeScope on the archaeological site

Ename TimeScope

Ename TimeScope (new version in 2013)

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Ename TimeScope


Ename TimeScope


Ename TimeScope


Ename TimeLine

Ename TimeLine (new version in 2014)

Legacy of Charlemagne exhibition

Interactive exhibition setup

Legacy of Charlemagne exhibition

Interactive exhibition setup

Natural interaction: Etruscanning

Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums


Regolini-Galassi tomb, excavated in 1836, objects in Vatican Museums


Interactive virtual Regolini-Galassi tomb (CNR-ITABC & Visual Dimension)





Digital restoration: Etruscanning

Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican


Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, L. Di Blasi, 1999


Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, 2011


Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, depth map, 2011


Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, render test, 2011

AdMotum @ Keys2Rome

AdMotum setup

Virtual reconstruction of Cim (Mostar)

•  Early Christian basilica (5th – 6th century) •  Basilica and memoria

•  Seat of a bishop •  Excavated in 1970s

•  Published in 1974, excavation log books available

•  Archaeological park •  Remains poorly preserved

•  Silver & ivory objects disappeared in the 1992-1995 war

•  Should be significant community

•  Only one house excavated

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Archaeological site of Cim (Mostar)


Archaeological site of Cim (Mostar)



Reconstruction drawing from original publication


Real time reconstruction with terrain

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altar: excavated parts, logbook, reconstruction drawing (excavation publication)


Relics found in cache under the altar


Digitally restored relics from Cim basilica (lost in the 1992-1995 war)


Altar: 3D digital restoration


Altar screen: 3D digital restoration


Final visualisation of the interior


Final visualisation of the interior


Peacock lintel


Peacock lintel – digital restoration

Keys2Rome @ Sarajevo

Natural interaction implementation of Cim basilica in Keys2Rome exhibition

NI Spatial Augmented Reality

Interactive Egyptian stele (Allard Pierson Museum)


Interactive oscillum (Allard Pierson Museum)


Interpretation of fragmentary wall paintings (Mercati Traianei)


Greco-Roman Museum - Submerged Antiquities in Bibliotheca Alexandrina


Caesarion in Bibliotheca Alexandrina


Caesarion – digital restoration – the parents


Caesarion – digital restoration


Caesarion – digital restoration – hypothesis for laurel wreath


Caesarion – digital restoration


Caesarion – natural interaction to show digital restoration

Tangible interfaces

Augustus Prima Porta @ Allard Pierson museum

in Amsterdam

Virtex

Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue

Virtex

Electronics inside the interactive 3D print

Virtex

Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue at APM

Virtex

Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue at APM

Virtex

Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue in Sarajevo

Virtex Light

Ara Pacis 3D model

Virtex Light

Ara Pacis interactive 3D print

Virtex Light


Virtex Light


Virtex Light

Interactive Ara Pacis at Allard Pierson museum

Virtex Light

Interactive Ara Pacis at Allard Pierson museum

Many thanks!

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