Cultural Heritage: A novel approach to documenting artifacts at the Gold Museum in Bogota

  • Authors:
  • Maria Fernanda Osorio;Pablo Figueroa;Flavio Prieto;Pierre Boulanger;Eduardo Londoño

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Manizales, Cra 27 No 64-60, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia;Universidad de los Andes, Carrera 1 No 18A-10, Bogota, Colombia;Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Bogota, Carrera 30 No 45-03, Edif. 453 - Of. 404, Bogota, Colombia;University of Alberta, 2-32 Athabasca Hall, Edmonton, Canada;Museo del Oro, Calle 16 No 5-41, Bogota, Colombia

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present our work on novel digitizing techniques to create virtual exhibitions in the context of the Gold Museum in Bogota, Colombia, a world renown space for precious pre-Colombian gold artifacts. In order to solve issues related to high specular reflection in gold artifacts, we developed a multi-spectral approach that solves some of the shortfalls of many commercial scanners. We also integrated commercial haptic devices into a new virtual installation that allows visitors to touch, hear, and see virtual approximations of the real objects. As an evaluation methodology, we compare the results of a scanner with normal light with our approach, and we also present results from user studies on our virtual installation.