Title :
Discovering Petra: archaeological analysis in VR
Author :
Vote, Eileen ; Feliz, Daniel Acevedo ; Laidlaw, David H. ; Joukowsky, Martha Sharp
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA
Abstract :
New tools give archaeologists access to formerly inaccessible parts of the archaeological record. The result is a demonstrably improved model for inquiry to pose, and answer, important research questions. We chronicle a collaborative effort (from 1997 to the present) with Petra Great Temple archaeologists to augment traditional analysis approaches. We introduce new archaeological analysis tools that combine novel visualization and interaction techniques within a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE)
Keywords :
archaeology; data visualisation; user interfaces; virtual reality; CAVE; Cave Automatic Virtual Environment; Petra Great Temple; archaeological analysis; collaborative effort; data visualization; user interaction; virtual reality; Analytical models; Data analysis; Data visualization; Education; Failure analysis; Geographic Information Systems; Information analysis; Spatial databases; Virtual reality; Visual databases;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCG.2002.1028725
