Making of a Virtual World of Heijokyo from Historical Knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Kei Utsugi;Toshio Moriya;Haruo Takeda

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VSMM '01 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We developed a walkthrough application that reproduced the ancient Japanese capital city"Heijokyo" on PC-based virtual reality system, and this paper describes the making of thatvirtual city. To create the huge and complex city model, we introduced a systematic method inwhich the objects are arranged in accordance with the historical knowledge in a database.Since the virtual city is consistent with the current map of Nara city, the transition betweenscenes of the virtual city and the current actual city can be displayed in a seamless way..