.: Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archeological Sites :.

Project Description:

We aim to develop tools to visualize and manipulate large data sets collected from different sources (surface laser scans, sub-surface scans, pictures, object clasifications, etc.) in the context of the archeological exchavations. We are hoping that those tools will aid archeologist in evaluating and visualising exchavation data both during and after the actual exchavations.

Team Members:

• Hrvoje Benko (coordinator, 3D interaction, visualization techniques)
• Edward Ishak (3D interaction)
• Sajid Sadi (software development, 3D interaction, visualization techniques)
• Zachariah Munoz (3D modeling)

Current Results:

Panorama Images from Amheida
Modeling of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Project Links:

• Main Project Website (Prof. Allen)
• The Website of Columbia Excavations at Amheida, Egypt
• The Website of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
• St. John the Divine QTVR Site
• Test scans in the Mudd basement (by Alejandro Troccoli)

Related Research Links:

• ARCHAVE Project at Brown University
• Andrew R. Willis Page at Brown University (Assembling Virtual Pots from Fragments)
• Theban Mapping Project Website

Support for This Project:

• Supported by NSF grant IIS-0121239
• Modeling tools donated by Alias|Wavefront, a division of Silicon Graphics Limited

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