First
Name: Bernard
Middle Initial: D.
Last Name: Frischer
Department: Classics
Institution: UCLA
Address: 100 Dodd Hall
Address:
City:
Zip Code: 90095-1417
Phone Number: (310) 825-4171
Fax Number: (310) 391-1460
Email: frischer49@aol.com
URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/frischer/home.html
Co-PI
First Name: Diane Middle Initial Last Name: Favro Department: Architecture Institution: UCLA Address: 1125H Perloff Address: 405 Hilgard Avenue City: Los Angeles State: CA Zip Code: 90095-1467 Phone Number: (310) 825-5374 Fax Number: (310) 825-8959 Email : dfavro@ucla.edu First
Name: Dean keyword
1: Virtual Reality From 1997
to 2002, the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory created a real-time,
interactive 3D computer model of the Roman Forum as it appeared at The
project has two potential impacts: 1) by making the Forum model more widely
available, it will help to improve research and teaching of ancient Roman
civilization; and 2) by developing algorithms for converting large-scale VR
models into QuickTime models, it will create routines and procedures that can
be used for similar conversion projects in the future. In the
first year, we created the individual elements needed both for The Perseus
Digital Library and the lab’s Forum Web page. These include QuickTime panoramas
of the digital computer model; QuickTime panoramas from the same coordinates in
the Forum as it exists today; HTML versions of articles on the Forum and its
buildings and monuments in L. Richardson, jr. A New Topographical Dictionary of Roman Topography ( This is
the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory’s home page. http://www.cvrlab.org/projects/real_time/roman_forum/roman_forum.html Here can
be found still views of the lab’s Forum model. The
Perseus Digital Library.
URL: http://www.aud.ucla.edu/~favro/
Collaborator
Middle Initial: L.
Last Name: Abernathy
Department: UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory
Institution: UCLA
Address: 100 Dodd Hall
Address:
City:
Zip Code: 90095-1417
Phone Number: (310) 794-1989
Fax Number
Email: dabernathy@earthlink.net
URL: www.cvrlab.org
Keywords
keyword 2: 3D computer model
keyword 3: Cultural heritage
keyword 4: Digital archaeology
Project Summary
Publications and
Products
Frischer, B. et al. (forthcoming). "The
Digital Roman Forum Project of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory,"
by B. Frischer, D. Favro, D. Abernathy, M. De Simone, forthcoming in The International Archives of the
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 5 pp.;
available online at: http://www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#PUBLICATIONS
Project Impact
Goals, Objectives and
Targeted Activities
Area Background
The project falls into the general areas of digital
archaeology and 3D computer modeling of cultural heritage sites.
Digital archaeology is a broad field that applies
new digital technologies to the solution of traditional problems in
archaeology. Examples include: scanning of artifacts or excavation trenches for
more accurate and realistic recording of data; use of highly accurate
differential GPS devices and total stations for the rapid generation of
accurate site plans; integration of
traditionally distinct collections of information from an archaeological site
(stratigraphic units, pottery, small finds, etc.) into a single GIS-based
database.
3D computer modeling of cultural heritage sites is
an emerging subfield within the general area of digital archaeology. The
scientific issues at stake include development of standards for file format,
metadata, and the visual representation of degrees of certainty/uncertainty
about the elements of a model.
Area References
Doerr, M. and A. Sarris, editors, CAA 2002. The Digital Heritage of
Archaeology. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
Proceedings of the 30th Conference, Heraklion,
F. Niccolucci, editor, Virtual
Archaeology: Proceedings of the VAST2000 Euroconference,
Forte, M., J. Barcelò, D. Sanders, editors, Virtual Reality in Archaeology, British
Archaeology Reports International Series S 843 (Oxford 2000).
Project Websites
http://cvrlab.org/forum/index.html
This is the project page devoted to the lab’s digital Forum project.
Illustrations
Other Resources