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An interactive virtual environment to communicate vesuvius eruptions numerical simulations and Pompeii history

Published: 30 July 2006 Publication History

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This paper describes a visual analysis and communication system that allows to interact with numerical simulations modeling complex natural phenomena, as volcanic eruptions, within their landscape environment. Moreover it describes how to effectively valorize the cultural context related to the territory using virtual archaeological reconstructions or historical sources whenever available having in mind educational and communication purposes.The case study presented is related to the area of the volcano Vesuvius, close to Naples Italy, very well known for the eruption occurred in 79 a.D. The volcano is currently being monitored to face future eruption risks.The framework presented not only allows to integrate the results of computing intensive simulations with geographic datasets for a fully interactive 3D high-resolution navigation around the volcano but also to performs an interactive virtual environment to access cultural heritage data.The goal is to perform new kinds of interaction and create user-friendly interfaces to communicate and explain scientific phenomena as the impact of the eruption together with cultural data providing access to databases and meta-information that exist beyond the landscape itself as GIS data, historical sources and virtual archaeology reconstructions.Moreover the framework that performs the interactive virtual environment is designed paying attention to multiplatform and multi channel portability. The interaction within the Vesuvius' landscape can be conceived not only for immersive graphics devices as Virtual Theaters but also for Virtual Sets for TV programs making contents fully available for educational purposes.

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  • (2010)VISMAN-DHER projectProceedings of the Third international conference on Digital heritage10.5555/1939603.1939643(409-421)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2010
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cover image ACM Conferences
SIGGRAPH '06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Educators program
July 2006
246 pages
ISBN:1595933646
DOI:10.1145/1179295
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Published: 30 July 2006

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  1. cultural heritage
  2. interactive virtual environments
  3. numerical simulation
  4. open source
  5. scientific visualization

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  • (2017)VLP Simulation: An Interactive Simple Virtual Model to Encourage Geoscience Skill about VolcanoJournal of Physics: Conference Series10.1088/1742-6596/895/1/012142895(012142)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2017
  • (2010)ViSManProceedings of the 11th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage10.5555/2384524.2384533(47-53)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2010
  • (2010)VISMAN-DHER projectProceedings of the Third international conference on Digital heritage10.5555/1939603.1939643(409-421)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2010
  • (2010)VISMAN-DHER Project: Integrated Fruition of Archaeological Data through a Scientific Virtual ModelDigital Heritage10.1007/978-3-642-16873-4_32(409-421)Online publication date: 2010

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