Project Number
- 298
Title
- Micro Archiving: Virtual Environments for Micro-Presence with Image-Based Model Acquisition
Description
- Digital archiving application for small objects like insects.
Contact
- Tatsuya Saito
Affiliation
- Keio University
Address
- 5322 Endo Fujisawa
- Kanagawa 252-8520 Japan
- +81.466.47.5000.53665
- Kanagawa 252-8520 Japan
- tatsu@wem.sfc.keio.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 2001
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Micro Archiving enables digital archives of small objects like insects. This application demonstrates Micro Archiving's easy acquisition of high-definition 3D models and displays an interactive [immersive] environment in which visitors interact with virtual bugs."
- "Micro-Presence is our term for the ability to experience [the] hidden realities [of microscopic structures]. Micro-Presence is an environment in which participants feel as if they are tiny and can observe and interact naturally with things in the microcosmic world."
- Applications include academic research in fields such as biology and zoology that require real observation of actual things. "For educational use, this technology creates a high-definition multimedia space in which visitors can freely participate and interact with the exhibit."
Sight
- graphics workstation, image-based rendering
Sound
Touch
- physical manipulator/orientation controls
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 301 - visualization
Secondary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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