.:: CAA 2010 -Fusion of Cultures- ::. Computer Applications in Archaeology, Granada (Spain) 6-9 April 2010

Chair: Bernard Frischer

• Restoration of Ceramics from Torre de Palma in Virtual and Augmented Reality
  Maria Helena Rua, Maia Langley
• Polychrome Statuary at Herculaneum: Accurately Simulating Colour and Light.
  Gareth Beale
• Recreating Cuzco in Three Dimensions
  Alexei Vranich, Adam R Barnes, Jackson Cothren, W F Limp
• The Third Dimension of Place: Representations of Activities in Inuvialuit homes
  Richard Michael Levy, Peter Dawson, Elizabeth Elaine Dickson, MacKay Glen, Charles Arnold, Gerald Oetelaa
• Placing Williamsburg in its Context: Modeling Landscape in the Virtual Williamsburg 1776 Project
  Lisa E. Fischer
• The Virtual Theater District of Pompeii
  Anne Weis, Jeffrey Jacobson, Michael Darnell
• An Exemplar of Ptolemaic Egyptian Temples
  Julia Troche, Jeffrey Jacobson
• Architecture and Decorative System of the Teatro Marittimo at Villa Adriana: a New Integrated Approach to an Under-standing of the Building’s Original Aspect
  Sergio Di Tondo, Benedetta Adembri, Filippo Fantini
• Virtual restoration from an architectonic and constructive interpretation of Villa of Livia
  Lola Vico

Friday April 9th, 11.30h, Room Manuel de Falla

Round table

• Roberto Scopigno
  ISTI/CNR, Italy
• Bernd Breuckmann
  CEO of Breuckmann GmbH, Germany
• Bernard Fischer
  IATH, Univ. Virginia, USA
• Martin Kampel
  PRIP,TU Wien, Austria
• Fco. Javier Melero
  GIIG,Univ. Granada, Spain

Friday April 9th, 14.30h, Room Manuel de Falla

Visualization of CH Models: Seeking for Just Visual Quality or Also Informative Content

Roberto Scopigno

Detailed and accurate 3D models of Cultural Heritage artifacts are becoming widely available by the diffusion of several new technologies for sem-automatic 3D digitalization. Very dense models require efficient data representations to be rendered in real time (either locally or on the web).

The talk will present current multiresolution approaches for efficient CH data representation and visualization, focusing on both triangle-based and point-based solutions which allow to enconde geometry and color data in a visualization-efficient manner.

But efficiency and visual quality of the visualization are not enough. Another emerging issue is how to enhance the interactive presentation of the artifact with capabilities that allow us to present also all the prossible related meta-information. User are thus looking for technologies able to geo-reference and annotate any type of information on the digital skin of the artwork. Recent efforts in this direction will be presented and discussed.