Cultural Heritage Presentation in Virtual Environment: Czech Experience

  • Authors:
  • Jiří Žára;Pavel Slavík

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A permanently increasing graphical power ofcommonly used computers opens a possibility topresent highly detailed and richly textured three-dimensionalmodels of cultural complexes using theweb. Utilizing virtual reality paradigms, both expertsand ordinary users can explore pieces of culturalheritage in a virtual environment.This paper introduces three different approaches tocultural heritage modeling and presentation in theCzech Republic. The first example, Celtic oppidumZávist, represents a simple but efficient utilization ofthe virtual reality for the archaeology. Next project,the Virtual Old Prague, is a complex web-basedapplication allowing dynamic walks through virtualcities. Such models can be theoretically of any size.Finally, the on-going EU project, Virtual Heart ofCentral Europe, is an example of several culturalheritage sites thematically interconnected intoa common virtual environment.