Daniel Pletinckx
ABSTRACT
Virtual Reality and multimedia technologies are central components of the heritage presentation programme at Ename, Belgium. These techniques are designed to help the visitor understand and experience the past as it has been revealed through archaeological and historical research. This paper briefly traces the development of multimedia and Virtual Reality technologies in presenting the archaeological site of the early medieval fortress and St. Salvator Abbey at Ename and in the archaeological exhibits in the Ename Provincial Museum. It then highlights the approach used in Ename to present the 10th-century Saint-Laurentius Church and its restoration to the public, describing the methodology of creating scientifically verifiable Virtual Reality reconstructions. In conclusion it will place this project in the context of an international heritage initiative, the Francia Media Project, in which new interpretive technologies will be developed by members of a scientific consortium to offer new media of public heritage presentation in a European context.
- Daniel Pletinckx, Dirk Callebaut, Ann E. Killebrew, and Neil A. Silberman. Virtual-Reality Heritage Presentation at Ename. IEEE Multimedia, April-June 2000, pages 45-48. Google Scholar
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- Similar methods of computer model superimposition are described in Maurizio Forte. Virtual Pompeii. In Virtual Archaeology, M. Forte (ed.), 1996, London, Thames and Hudson and M. Pollefeys, M. Vergauwen, F, Verbiest, K. Cornelis, J. Tops and L. Van Gool. Virtual Models from Video and Vice-Versa. Proc. International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA01), B. Fisher, K. Dawson-Howe, C. O'Sullivan (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 11-22+plate 1, 2001.Google Scholar
- Dirk Callebaut. De Sint-Laurentiuskerk van Ename: een vroeg-11de eeuws symbool van stabilitas regni et fidelitas imperatoris. Archeologie in Vlaanderen II (1992) pages 435-470.Google Scholar
- S.E. Chen. QuickTime VR --- An Image-based Approach to Virtual Environment Navigation. Siggraph 95 Proceedings (1995), pages 29-38. Google ScholarDigital Library
- On similar virtual reconstruction of cities and their evolution, embedded in the landscape and terrain, see J.R. Kos et al. The city that doesn't exist: Hypermedia Reconstruction of Latin American Cities. Proc. of Int. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Dundee 1999 (VSMM99), pages 1-10.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Presenting a monument in restoration: the Saint Laurentius church in Ename and its role in the Francia Media heritage initiative
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