Paradata and transparency in virtual heritage /

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Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012] ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (xxvi, 290 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Digital research in the arts and humanities Digital research in the arts and humanities.
Subject:	Cultural property -- Digitization. Interpretation of cultural and natural resources. Visualization -- Data processing. Digital media. Digital images. Virtual reality. Digital images. Digital media. Interpretation of cultural and natural resources. Virtual reality. Visualization -- Data processing.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122919

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Other authors / contributors:	Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna, editor. Denard, Hugh, editor. Baker, Drew, editor.
ISBN:	9781409437611 1409437612 1283382997 9781283382991 1317084241 9781317084242 9786613382993 661338299X 131708425X 9781317084259 9780754675839 0754675831
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Computer-Generated Images (CGIs) are widely used and accepted in the world of entertainment but the use of the very same visualization techniques in academic research in the Arts and Humanities remains controversial. The techniques and conceptual perspectives on heritage visualization are a subject of an ongoing interdisciplinary debate. By demonstrating scholarly excellence and best technical practice in this area, this volume is concerned with the challenge of providing intellectual transparency and accountability in visualization-based historical research. Addressing a range of cognitive an.
Other form:	Print version: Paradata and transparency in virtual heritage. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012 9780754675839

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Anna Bentkowska-Kafel and Hugh Denard
Defining our terms in heritage visualization / Richard Beacham
Scientific method, chaîne opératoire and visualization : 3D modelling as a research tool in archaeology / Sorin Hermon
Setting standards for 3D visualization of cultural heritage in Europe and beyond / Franco Niccolucci
More than pretty pictures of the past : an American perspective on virtual heritage / Donald H. Sanders
A new introduction to the London charter / Hugh Denard
The London Charter for the Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage (version 2.1, February 2009)
Walking with dragons : CGIs in wildlife "documentaries" / Mark Carnall
Hypothesizing Southampton in 1454 : a three-dimensional model of the medieval town / Matt Jones
Paradata in art-historical research : a visualization of Piet Mondrian's studio at 5 Rue de coulmiers / Ryan Egel-Andrews
Just how predictable is predictive lighting? / Kate Devlin
Lies, damned lies, and visualizations : will metadata and paradata be a solution or a curse? / Martin J. Turner
Intricacies and potentials of gathering paradata in the 3D modelling workflow / Sven Havemann
Defining paradata in heritage visualization / Drew Baker
Transparency for empirical data / Mark Mudge
Behaviours, interactions, and affordance in virtual archaeology / Maurizio Forte and Sofia Pescarin
How to make sustainable visualizations of the past : an epoch common infrastructure tool for interpretation management / Daniel Pletinckx
Processual scholia : the importance of paradata in heritage visualization / Anna Bentkowska-Kafel.

Paradata and transparency in virtual heritage /

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