Visualizing 3 d virtual museums

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

2010/12/14

Ordered, Categorized, Classified

Deploying Knowledge Carefully

when culture encounters internet

But they are also dead

2010/12/14

The History of Death Meditative Necropolis


And/or imperialist symbols

2010/12/14

Displaying Objects and Monuments


2010/12/14

Museum exhibits are designed,

therefore,

– Bring Cultural and Scientific Heritages

to the Communities

– For People Experiencing

Lives and Culture Visually


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

2010/12/14when culture encounters internet

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,”


Presenting with technology


…… 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

2010/12/14 when culture encounters internet

3D VR Applications

• Entertainment

• Computer-aided design

• Scientific visualisation

• Education and training

• Computer art

• Cultural heritage



Showcasing Taiwan (I)Kenting National Park 3D GIS


Showcasing Taiwan (II)National Marine Museum 3D Tours



Showcasing Taiwan (III)National Marine Museum 3D


Showcasing Taiwan (IV)National Taiwan University Rock Objects


Showcasing Taiwan (V)National Taiwan University Insect Images

Showcasing Taiwan (VI)Virtual Gallery of Law and Culture


v各館校園佔地總面積約為7010平方公尺


臺大博物館群National Taiwan University Museums


NTU Museums & Campus

NTU Museum CollectionsArchives


NTU Museum CollectionsBotany


NTU Museum CollectionsEntomology


NTU Museum CollectionsGeosciences


NTU Museum CollectionsAnthropology


NTU Museum CollectionsZoology


2010/12/14

NTU Museum CollectionsAgriculture


2010/12/14

NTU Museum CollectionsPhysics



2010/12/14

Cooperating with

Digital Archives Projects


digitalization means

making copies


so we can make copies

…lots of copies

and place in any location 2010/12/14when culture encounters internet

What we called “remixed”


With appropriate programming, such a display could literally be the Wonderland into which Alice walked.

IVAN SUTHERLAND (1965)


Technology makes it easy to…

Share

Use

Copy

Modify

Repurpose

Distribute

Excerpt/Quote from

Share


藏品、記憶、社群Memory Recollected

Exampling NTU Museum Exhibition

Representation, Visualization,

& Imagination

2010/12/14

…… they have a function in relation to

all the space that remains.




Accumulation of Times

……are most often linked to

slices in time.







Differences & Interpretations

……capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces,

several sites that are in themselves incompatible.




2010/12/14

Birds of Asia,

1862, John GouldSpecimen collected,

1917, I. Aoki

Picture and Sound

2003, Dep. of Zoology

Formosan Jay (Garrulus glandarius)



Relations of Proximity

2010/12/14

……… a sort of mixed, joint experience,

which would be the mirror.


2010/12/14

wonder systematic



http://www.digital.ntu.edu.tw/3dmuseum/

Virtual-Real Complexity

Stereo Panorama


2010/12/14

空間 Geography

時間 Time

文化 Culture

領域 Discipline

媒材 Media

Crossing Boundaries


Fusing Technology and Heritage

Materiality, representation, and imagination are not separate worlds.

David Harvey


2010/12/14

We are making our museum …

• a Place for the Public

• Exhibition with Views

• a Click to the Real World


http://www.digital.ntu.edu.tw/3dmuseum/

2010/12/14

To Preserve & Tell Our Histories


From ”Window Browsing” to “Network Weaving”

2010/12/14

To Make Connections


2010/12/14

To Promote Participation


To Engage Communities


Concluding Remarks

The museum, instead of being circumscribed as a geometric site,

is everywhere now, like a dimension of life.”

Jean Baudrillard


Thank You

Please visit us:

http://www.museums.ntu.edu.tw/english/

Or write to us:

[email protected]

http://www.museums.ntu.edu.tw/english/

mailto:[email protected]

Documents

Visualizing 3 d virtual museums