Visualizing and assessing hypotheses in marine archaeology in a vr cave environment
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2013
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Abstract
The understanding and reconstruction of a wreck’s formation process can be a
complicated procedure that needs to take into account many interrelated components
and has not been adequately and precisely investigated in the past. The Cypriot
archaeologists investigating the 4th century BC, Mazotos shipwreck are unable to
interact easily and intuitively with the recorded data, a fact that impedes visualization
and reconstruction and subsequently delays the evaluation of their hypotheses. An
immersive 3D visualization application that utilizes a VR Cave is developed, with the
intent to enable researchers to mine the wealth of information this ancient shipwreck
has to offer. Through the implementation and evaluation of the proposed application,
this research seeks to investigate whether such an environment can aid the
interpretation and analysis process and ultimately serve as an additional scientific tool
for marine archaeology.
complicated procedure that needs to take into account many interrelated components
and has not been adequately and precisely investigated in the past. The Cypriot
archaeologists investigating the 4th century BC, Mazotos shipwreck are unable to
interact easily and intuitively with the recorded data, a fact that impedes visualization
and reconstruction and subsequently delays the evaluation of their hypotheses. An
immersive 3D visualization application that utilizes a VR Cave is developed, with the
intent to enable researchers to mine the wealth of information this ancient shipwreck
has to offer. Through the implementation and evaluation of the proposed application,
this research seeks to investigate whether such an environment can aid the
interpretation and analysis process and ultimately serve as an additional scientific tool
for marine archaeology.
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