Archeologia virtuale, realismo, interattività e performance: dalla ricostruzione alla fruizione on line

Sofia Pescarin; Bruno Fanini; Daniele Ferdani; Guido Lucci Baldassari; Luigi Calori

doi:10.6092/issn.1828-5961/2570

Authors

Sofia Pescarin CNR ITABC (Institute of Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage)

Archaeologist, PhD in History and Computing, specialist in GIS, 3d terrain, Open Source approach to Cultural Heritage. She is a researcher at CNR ITABC in Rome, in the Virtual Heritage Lab (VHLab). At CNR she coordinates at national level a research unit dedicated to “Virtual Heritage". She is currently the project coordinator of V-MusT.net Network of Excellence, financed by the European Community under the FP7 (2011-2015). She directs the Italian School of Virtual Archaeology and Archeovirtual events.
Bruno Fanini

3D Graphics Programmer and Digital Artist, he's interested in Virtual Heritage, real-time 3D Graphics and new veins of Virtual Reality. He is involved into different projects including online Virtual Worlds (OSG4WEB plugin), aided navigation systems within virtual environments and user interfaces. Projects developed at CINECA computing center (Bologna) and at CNR ITABC, VHLab (Rome). He has experience in OpenSceneGraph framework and interests in 3D web optimization and Wii peripherals.
Daniele Ferdani

Archaeologist, he received a II level master in Geotecnology for Archaeology. Since 2009 he has been a doctoral student in Archaeology of medieval building industry at the University of Siena and lecturer in 3D modeling for archaeology at the Virtual Heritage School of CNR (RM) and at the Advanced School of Computer Graphics for Cultural Heritage of Cineca (BO). He is fellowship researcher at CNR ITABC in Rome, in the Virtual Heritage Lab.
Guido Lucci Baldassari CNR ITABC (Institute of Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage)
Computer Science and Automation Engineer from the Faculty of Engineering at Università Degli Studi di Ferrara, with a strong interest in video games, real time 3d, computer graphic and animation. In 2010 he did an internship at CINECA computing center (BO), and he is currently part of CNR ITABC team (Rome). Here he is involved in various activities, manily in the field of virtual heritage, and he expanded his knowledge in the field of computer graphic and Mac OSX/Cocoa software development.
Luigi Calori CINECA

Degree in Mathematics from Bologna University. Since 1989 he works at CINECA in the Visualization Lab. He developed application and visualization in different application fields: astrophysics, medical data analysis and visualization, haptic interfaces, landscape and geographic data visualization applied to cultural heritage. He is currently involved in browser embedded 3d applications in cultural heritage and scientific visualization, based on OpenSceneGraph open source library.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1828-5961/2570

Keywords:

Virtual Archaeology, Computer Graphics, 3D Web,

Abstract

The paper presents the different steps of a virtual archaeology project, where different data are produced using separate pipelines, and are optimized and integrated in a real time environment, accessible on line by specialists (restricted access to a back end section) and by a wider public (open access to a front end section). The work is based on an open source tool previously developed by the team, OSG4WEB, recently optimized, adding new features and functionalities to enable the final publication of massive landscape reconstructions and virtual environments. The case study, Aquae Patavinae project, was chosen in order to explain the problematic aspects of a typical virtual archaeology work, where the main goal is to reconstruct ancient potential contexts and landscapes, thus supporting the choices made in the development of the software. The paper will underline how large reconstructed worlds and virtual environments within real-time 3D applications via web is still a challenge.

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