This document discusses new technologies for experiencing heritage sites through 3D digitization. It provides examples of virtual museums created from 3D scans of archaeological sites like Ename Abbey in Belgium. Technologies discussed include virtual reconstructions over time, interactive storytelling applications, natural interaction techniques, and digital restoration of artifacts. The goal is to digitally preserve cultural heritage and provide novel ways to explore archaeological sites and better understand the past.

1. New technologies
for heritage:
Experiencing the past by
3D digisitation of
heritage sites
Dries Nollet
Carlotta Capurro
Daniel Pletinckx
Visual Dimension bvba
Belgium
V-MUST is funded by the European Commission under the Community's Seventh
Framework Programme, contract no. GA 270404.

2. 3D Virtual museums
• What does 3D offers to virtual museums?
– Digitise existing buildings and objects
– Recreate and visualise the past
– Digitally restore museum objects
– Explore virtual spaces
– See evolution in time until today
• Monuments & landscapes are essential part of
virtual museums
• Provide context of museum objects
• Provide a visual reference framework for 2 people out of 3

3. Ename, Belgium
Archaeological site of Ename, Belgium

4. Ename, Belgium
Archaeological site and village of Ename, Belgium

5. Ename 1065
4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1065)

6. Ename 1085
4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1085)

7. Ename 1150
4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1150)

8. Ename 1500
4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1500)

9. Ename 1595
4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1595)

10. Ename 1665
4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1665)

11. Ename 1730
4D visualisation of evolution of the Ename abbey site (1730)

12. Ename 1020
Resistivity measurements at the archaeological site of Ename

13. Ename 1020
Resistivity results of the archaeological site of Ename
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14. Ename 1020
Magnetometer results of the archaeological site of Ename
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15. Ename 1020
Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, before the abbey phase

16. Ename 1020
Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, trade settlement

17. Ename 1020
Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, harbour and castrum

18. Ename 1020
Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, harbour and Saint Salvator church

19. Ename 1020
Reconstruction of Ename in 1020, market place and Saint Salvator church

20. Workflow
Conceptual model of reconstructed buildings and terrain features

21. Workflow
Top view map in Photoshop

22. Workflow
Separation of terrain types in layers in Photoshop

23. Workflow
Creation of height maps through painting in Photoshop

24. Workflow
Scaled height maps in Photoshop (16 bit TIFF)

25. Workflow
Terrain types and applied height map (Vue)

26. Workflow
Terrain without vegetation (Vue)

27. Workflow
Terrain with water and vegetation after population (Vue)

28. Workflow
Terrain with vegetation, buildings and (animated) objects (Collada)

29. 4D visualisation: 1020-1730
Procedural landscape simulation in Vue (1730)

30. Interactive storytelling
• Exploration through POIs (points of interest)
• Panorama based (TimeScope)
• ObjectVR based (TimeLine)
• Natural interaction – body (Kinect)
• Natural interaction – hands (Leap)
• Spatial Augmented Reality
• Tangible Interfaces
• Virtex (museum objects)
• Virtex Light (monuments)

31. Ename TimeScope
Ename TimeScope on the archaeological site

32. Ename TimeScope
Ename TimeScope (new version in 2013)

33. Ename TimeScope
Ename TimeScope (new version in 2013)

34. Ename TimeScope
Ename TimeScope (new version in 2013)

35. Ename TimeScope
Ename TimeScope (new version in 2013)

36. Ename TimeScope
Ename TimeScope (new version in 2013)

37. Ename TimeLine
Ename TimeLine (new version in 2014)

38. Legacy of Charlemagne exhibition
Interactive exhibition setup

39. Legacy of Charlemagne exhibition
Interactive exhibition setup

40. Natural interaction: Etruscanning
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums

41. Natural interaction: Etruscanning
Regolini-Galassi tomb, excavated in 1836, objects in Vatican Museums

42. Natural interaction: Etruscanning
Interactive virtual Regolini-Galassi tomb (CNR-ITABC & Visual Dimension)

43. Natural interaction: Etruscanning
Interactive virtual Regolini-Galassi tomb (CNR-ITABC & Visual Dimension)

44. Natural interaction: Etruscanning
Interactive virtual Regolini-Galassi tomb (CNR-ITABC & Visual Dimension)

45. Digital restoration: Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican

46. Digital restoration: Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, L. Di Blasi, 1999

47. Digital restoration: Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, 2011

48. Digital restoration: Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, depth map, 2011

49. Digital restoration: Etruscanning
Patera from Regolini-Galassi tomb, digital restoration, render test, 2011

50. AdMotum @ Keys2Rome
AdMotum setup

51. Virtual reconstruction of Cim (Mostar)
• Early Christian basilica (5th – 6th century)
• Basilica and memoria
• Seat of a bishop
• Excavated in 1970s
• Published in 1974, excavation log books available
• Archaeological park
• Remains poorly preserved
• Silver & ivory objects disappeared in the 1992-1995 war
• Should be significant community
• Only one house excavated

52. Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Archaeological site of Cim (Mostar)

53. Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Archaeological site of Cim (Mostar)

54. Virtual reconstruction of Cim

55. Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Reconstruction drawing from original publication

56. Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Real time reconstruction with terrain

57. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altar: excavated parts, logbook, reconstruction drawing (excavation publication)

58. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Relics found in cache under the altar

59. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Digitally restored relics from Cim basilica (lost in the 1992-1995 war)

60. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altar: 3D digital restoration

61. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altar screen: 3D digital restoration

62. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Final visualisation of the interior

63. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Final visualisation of the interior

64. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Peacock lintel

65. Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Peacock lintel – digital restoration

66. Keys2Rome @ Sarajevo
Natural interaction implementation of Cim basilica in Keys2Rome exhibition

67. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Interactive Egyptian stele (Allard Pierson Museum)

68. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Interactive oscillum (Allard Pierson Museum)

69. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Interpretation of fragmentary wall paintings (Mercati Traianei)

70. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Greco-Roman Museum - Submerged Antiquities in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

71. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Caesarion in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

72. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Caesarion – digital restoration – the parents

73. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Caesarion – digital restoration

74. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Caesarion – digital restoration – hypothesis for laurel wreath

75. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Caesarion – digital restoration

76. NI Spatial Augmented Reality
Caesarion – natural interaction to show digital restoration

77. Tangible interfaces
Augustus Prima Porta
@ Allard Pierson museum
in Amsterdam

78. Virtex
Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue

79. Virtex
Electronics inside the interactive 3D print

80. Virtex
Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue at APM

81. Virtex
Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue at APM

82. Virtex
Interactive 3D print of Augustus Prima Porta statue in Sarajevo

83. Virtex Light
Ara Pacis 3D model

84. Virtex Light
Ara Pacis interactive 3D print

85. Virtex Light
Ara Pacis interactive 3D print

86. Virtex Light
Ara Pacis interactive 3D print

87. Virtex Light
Interactive Ara Pacis at Allard Pierson museum

88. Virtex Light
Interactive Ara Pacis at Allard Pierson museum

89. Many thanks!
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