Presentation at the Belgian CARARE workshop (see http://carare.eu/ ) in Brussels on Jan 25, 2013 concerning the use of 3D in cultural heritage

1. 3D as an aspect
of innovation
in cultural heritage
Daniel Pletinckx - Visual Dimension bvba
Ename, Belgium

2. Daniel Pletinckx
- civil engineer ICT (1984)
- 14 years in industry (2D & 3D image creation, GIS, QA)
- ICT consultant for Ename 974 project (1997)
- co-founder of Ename Center (1998 - 2006)
- specialised in digital heritage
- founder & Integration Coordinator of EPOCH (2004-2008)
- Tartessos Award for Virtual Archaeology (Sevilla, 2009)
- 3D coordinator CARARE (2010-2013)
- Exploitation & Dissemination V-MusT.net (2011-2014)
- 3D publication 3D-ICONS (2012-2015)

3. Visual Dimension bvba
- founded in 2003
- active in architecture and cultural heritage
- 3D (digitisation, digital reconstruction & restoration)
- interactive storytelling systems (TimeScope/TimeFrame)
- coordination & training
- offices in Ename, Belgium

4. Overview
- 3D today and in CH
- 3D for research
- 3D for digital restoration
- 3D for physical restoration
- 3D for documentation
- 3D as educational resource
- 3D as communication tool
- 3D in Europeana
- CARARE

5. 3D is hot…
- 3D is prominently present
- Film
- Advertising
- 3D printing
- YouTube
- Autostereoscopic screens

6. More 3D tools than ever before…
- 3D from images
- 3D software (e.g. Blender)
- Games
- 3D user interfaces
- 3D printing

7. Better 3D visualisation than ever before…
Ename abbey and village in 1065

8. But still little integration of 3D in CH
- “3D only produces nice pictures”
- “These 3D modelers just take some buildings and
put them there”
- “3D can never show how a real object is”
- “We never have learned in university how to
create or use 3D”

9. 3D for research - Etruscanning
- Regolini-Galassi tomb
- Checking hypotheses
- Feasibility
- Correspondence with finds/data
- Communication between experts
- Multidisciplinary research
- Distributed teams
- Blog as research tool
http://regolinigalassi.wordpress.com/

10. 3D for research - Etruscanning
Virtual reconstruction Regolini-Galassi tomb with dummy objects

11. 3D for research - Etruscanning
Virtual reconstruction Regolini-Galassi tomb – real time VR

12. 3D for research - Etruscanning
Bronze discs with unknown function – Regolini-Galassi tomb

13. 3D for research - Etruscanning
Different hypotheses on the nature of the bronze discs (RG tomb)

14. 3D for research – La tomba del principe sabino
http://www.principisabini.it/

15. 3D for research – La tomba del principe sabino

16. 3D for research - Etruscanning
Monte Michele tomb 5 – Villa Giulia

17. 3D for research - Etruscanning
Monte Michele tomb 5 – Villa Giulia

18. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican

19. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, Grifi, 1841

20. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, L. Di Blasi, 1999

21. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, 2011

22. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, depth map, 2011

23. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, render test, 2011

24. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Bronze disks from Regolini-Galassi tomb, original objects, 2012

25. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Bronze disks from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, 2012

26. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, 2012

27. 3D for digital restoration - Etruscanning
Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, 2012

28. 3D to prepare physical restoration
Ramses II colossus, Thebe, INSIGHT

29. 3D to prepare physical restoration
Nymphaeum, Sagalassos, Turkey

30. 3D to prepare physical restoration
Nymphaeum, Sagalassos, Turkey

31. 3D to prepare physical restoration
Nymphaeum, Sagalassos, Turkey

32. 3D to prepare physical restoration
Nymphaeum, Sagalassos, Turkey

33. 3D to prepare physical restoration
Nymphaeum, Sagalassos, Turkey

34. 3D as documentation
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

35. 3D as documentation
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

36. 3D as documentation
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

37. 3D as documentation
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

38. 3D as documentation
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
Interior middle level with current walkways

39. 3D as educational resource
- Rich objects
- Text
- Images/panoramas/video
- 3D windows
- Links (within doc, other doc, URLs)
- Exploration
- Relationships
- Understanding (virtual reconstruction vs. remains)
- Example: Abbey of Saint-John, Biograd

40. 3D as communication tool: visual reference
- IPO study (1990s)
- 2 people out of 3 have historical horizon limited to grandparents
- 4 people out of 5 are interested in history
- Most people have limited historical reference
- History needs to be relevant to today
- 3D can provide a very cost effective visual reference of
specific periods

41. 3D as communication tool: visual reference

42. 3D as communication tool: recontextualisation
Regolini-Galassi tomb, excavated in 1836, objects in Vatican Museums

43. 3D as communication tool: recontextualisation
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums

44. 3D as communication tool: recontextualisation
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums

45. Europeana 3D requirements
- Available on all major platforms
- No installation of plugins or software
- Standardised and open format
- Simple to use, accessible to all
- Resource exploration
=> One solution : PDF

46. Europeana 3D requirements
- Available on all major platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
- No installation of plugins or software: 3DPDF on 89 %
- Standardised and open format: ISO 32000-1
- Simple to use, accessible to all: well known, all computers
- Resource exploration:
- URLs
- open other documents
- go to specific pages

47. PDF
- 3D PDF well accepted by CH partners
- Functionality well supported
- 3D exploration through text links
- Free 3D exploration
- Evolution, phases
- Virtual restoration
- Structure
- Excavation vs. virtual reconstruction

48. CARARE Content providers : SNS, Italy
Pompei - SNS

49. CARARE Content providers : SNS
Pompei - SNS

50. CARARE Content providers : SNS
Pompei - SNS
http://pompei.sns.it/

51. CARARE Content providers : SNS
Pompei - SNS

52. CARARE Content providers : STARC, Cyprus
Paphos - STARC

53. CARARE Content providers : STARC
Paphos - STARC
http://3dpaphostheatre.cyi.ac.cy/

54. CARARE Content providers : KUAS, Denmark
Jelling Stones

55. CARARE Content providers : KUAS
Jelling Stones

56. CARARE Content providers : KUAS
Jelling Stones

57. CARARE Content providers : CETI (Greece)
Drama
Xanthi
Kavala

58. Thank you for your attention!
daniel.pletinckx@visualdimension.be
skype: daniel.pletinckx
www.carare.eu
Etruscanning funded by