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Interacting with Simulated Archaeological Assets

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2016)

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Digital and 3D data are common components in current archaeological work, and expectations regarding their utilization in contextualizing archaeological knowledge are steadily on the rise. The rapid progress in real-time rendering software and more accessible computational power enables integrated data-sets to (re)gain relevance in the process of interpreting archaeological contexts. Retaining high level of details and correct geometric relations of a complex scene while reconciling inherent variations in the scale, format, and resolution of input data (including 2D legacy data and 3D field recordings) has been already successfully achieved in the simulation of the Temple of the Storm God of Aleppo, realized by an interdisciplinary working group in the HTW Berlin. The current paper addresses the modification of virtual and immersive environments within the field of cultural heritage, and evaluating their potential as tools in interpretative archaeological processes. Based on widely available game technology, two applications are presented, supporting real-time interaction and collaborative work within a single modeled space.

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Former sponsors of the project and related fieldwork are: the IFAF Institute Berlin, the World Monuments Fund, the German Research Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, TOPOI Cluster of Excellence at the Free University of Berlin.

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  1. Landscape Archaeology, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Arian Goren, Kay Kohlmeyer & Arie Kai-Browne

  2. Game Design, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Bremer, Susanne Brandhorst & Felix Balda

  3. Computer and Media Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    David Strippgen & Sebastian Plesch

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Goren, A. et al. (2016). Interacting with Simulated Archaeological Assets. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48496-9_23

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