visualizing 3 d virtual museums
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Fusion of 3D Information
for Visualizing Virtual Museums
Chiung-min Tsai
Research Center for Digital Humanities,National Taiwan University
2010. 12. 17
“As their designated missions, museums are
institutes to provide both functions of
academic research and social education.”
Hiroshi Shidehara, 1939The First President, Taihoku University
Expecting Museums
Collections are organized
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Ordered, Categorized, Classified
Deploying Knowledge Carefully
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But they are also dead
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The History of Death Meditative Necropolis
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And/or imperialist symbols
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Displaying Objects and Monuments
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Museum exhibits are designed,
therefore,
– Bring Cultural and Scientific Heritages
to the Communities
– For People Experiencing
Lives and Culture Visually
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Virtual Tour:
Smithsonian &
Louvre
Visualizing Information
Old Chinese Saying:
“Tell me and I’ll forget.
Show me and I may remember…
Involve me and I’ll understand.”Richard Templar,
The Rules of Management
聞之不若見之,見之不若知之,知之不若行之,學至乎行而止矣
——荀子
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Why visualizing
“The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition.”
“The process of analyzing and transforming non-spatial data into an effective visual form”
“A highly efficient way for the mind to directly perceive data and discover knowledge and insight from it”
“The visual appearance of data objects and their relationships”
“The transformation of abstract data to a visual representation, which is rapidly understood by the user”
Card, Mackinlay & Shneiderman (eds.), 1999
“Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think,”
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Presenting with technology
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…… in an unreal, virtual space
that opens up behind the surface.
3D information visualization presentation techniques
• Surface plots • Cityscapes • Fish-eye views• Landscape• Perspective walls • Trees • Sphere• Rooms
Constructing 3D VR
Geometry-based Image-based
objects and scenes may not exist existed objects & scenes
interactive motion limitation
computation required for better scene construction.
computation is relative, suitable for real-time applications.
not as real immersive
3D modeling & scanning required no model construction needed
*May be Augmented with Virtual or Real Things
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3D VR Applications
• Entertainment
• Computer-aided design
• Scientific visualisation
• Education and training
• Computer art
• Cultural heritage
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Showcasing Taiwan (I)Kenting National Park 3D GIS
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Showcasing Taiwan (II)National Marine Museum 3D Tours
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Showcasing Taiwan (III)National Marine Museum 3D
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Showcasing Taiwan (IV)National Taiwan University Rock Objects
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Showcasing Taiwan (V)National Taiwan University Insect Images
Showcasing Taiwan (VI)Virtual Gallery of Law and Culture
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臺大博物館群National Taiwan University Museums
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NTU Museums & Campus
NTU Museum CollectionsArchives
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NTU Museum CollectionsBotany
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NTU Museum CollectionsEntomology
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NTU Museum CollectionsGeosciences
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NTU Museum CollectionsAnthropology
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NTU Museum CollectionsZoology
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NTU Museum CollectionsAgriculture
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NTU Museum CollectionsPhysics
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Cooperating with
Digital Archives Projects
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digitalization means
making copies
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so we can make copies
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What we called “remixed”
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With appropriate programming, such a display could literally be the Wonderland into which Alice walked.
IVAN SUTHERLAND (1965)
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Technology makes it easy to…
Share
Use
Copy
Modify
Repurpose
Distribute
Excerpt/Quote from
Share
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藏品、記憶、社群Memory Recollected
Exampling NTU Museum Exhibition
Representation, Visualization,
& Imagination
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…… they have a function in relation to
all the space that remains.
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Accumulation of Times
……are most often linked to
slices in time.
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Differences & Interpretations
……capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces,
several sites that are in themselves incompatible.
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Birds of Asia,
1862, John GouldSpecimen collected,
1917, I. Aoki
Picture and Sound
2003, Dep. of Zoology
Formosan Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
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Relations of Proximity
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……… a sort of mixed, joint experience,
which would be the mirror.
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wonder systematic
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Virtual-Real Complexity
Stereo Panorama
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空間 Geography
時間 Time
文化 Culture
領域 Discipline
媒材 Media
Crossing Boundaries
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Fusing Technology and Heritage
Materiality, representation, and imagination are not separate worlds.
David Harvey
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We are making our museum …
• a Place for the Public
• Exhibition with Views
• a Click to the Real World
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To Preserve & Tell Our Histories
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From ”Window Browsing” to “Network Weaving”
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To Make Connections
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To Promote Participation
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To Engage Communities
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Concluding Remarks
The museum, instead of being circumscribed as a geometric site,
is everywhere now, like a dimension of life.”
Jean Baudrillard
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Thank You
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