Developing Digital Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest Software to Promote Historical Culture by Applying Virtual Reality Technology

With almost five hundred years history, the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest has extremely high value on studying Chinese historical culture. Due to the reason of increasing number of tourists in recent years, however, the relics in the Hall are threatened by the air change and some people have no chance to closely observe the Hall. Therefore, in this paper, we developed the Digital Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest software by applying virtual reality technology. To be specific, we adopt the 3DMAX software to present the 3D scene and the OpenGL technology to achieve real-time rendering. People can use this software to view the virtual Hall at any angle and walk through the digital Hall like playing 3D games. Our high-quality virtual environment simulation of the Hall achieves smooth real-time rendering without sacrificing the quality of the pictures, which helps people understand Chinese historical culture better.