Project Number

42

Title

Virtual Environments of Actual Places through Field Recording and Human Crafting

Description

Spatial reconstruction of virtual environments through human techniques.

Contact

Michael Naimark

Affiliation

Naimark & Company

Address

216 Filbert Steps 
San Francisco, California 94133

E-mail

WWW

Year

1992

Reference

SIGGRAPH 92 Final Program

Project Details

The goal is to explore "sense of place" by making computer models based upon the physical world. 
 
These models are made in a Verité tradition of working in uncontrolled environments with minimum disturbance to them. The first phase of an 18-month project is presented here - a virtual dome is created and "hand-crafted" using only a fish eye camera, a single point rangefinder, existing maps, and common sense knowledge about the world to recreate a more accurate spatial representation. 
 
Spatial reconstruction of virtual environments through human techniques.

Sight

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Sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

307 - art / commentary

Secondary

203 - interactive paradigm, technique

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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