Data visualization in archaeology
IBM Systems Journal
From Ruins to Reality - The Dresden Frauenkirche
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
An interactive graphics environment for architectural energy simulation
SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Interaction with a color computer graphics system for archaeological sites
SIGGRAPH '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The virtual windtunnel: an environment for the exploration of three-dimensional unsteady flows
VIS '91 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91
Visualizing n-dimensional implications of two-dimensional design decisions
VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
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In the process of archaeological excavation, a vast amount of data, much of it three-dimensional in nature, is recorded. In recent years, computer graphics techniques have been applied to the task of visualizing such data. In particular, data visualization has been used to accomplish the virtual reconstruction of site architecture and to enable the display of spatial data distributions using three-dimensional models of site terrain. In the case we present here, these two approaches are integrated in the modeling of a prehistoric pithouse. In order to better visualize artifact distributions in the context of site architecture, surface data is displayed as a layer in a virtual reconstruction viewable at interactive rates. This integration of data display with the architectural model has proven valuable in identifying correlations between distributions of different artifact categories and their spatial proximity to significant architectural features.