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We are developing a web site with photorealistic animations and virtual reality walk throughs of architecture and artifacts at an archaeological site in El Salvador. The goal of the site is to support research and teaching about household anthropology in sixth-century Meso-America. To counter the false sense of realism and truth these experiences often convey we have developed Image Arguments, a scheme for integrating with images the arguments and data that they are based on. We provide this contextual information using a server side database and client side Java applets, enabling viewers to examine the assumptions and the data behind the images.
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Lewin, J.S., Ehrhardt, M., Gross, M.D. (1997). Not Just Another Pretty Face. In: Junge, R. (eds) CAAD futures 1997. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5576-2_46
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