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Extending Model Use in Virtual Heritage: User-Centric Implementation of a Protected Remote Rendering Visualization Tool

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dc.contributor Frischer, Bernard
dc.creator Christiansen, Leif
dc.date 2019-05-13T13:02:42Z
dc.date 2019-05-13T13:02:42Z
dc.date 2019-05
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-21T11:21:38Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-21T11:21:38Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2022/23042
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/253169
dc.description Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering, 2019
dc.description Virtual Heritage (VH) is the application of computing technologies, in particular, 3D graphics, to the documentation, study, preservation, and dissemination of cultural heritage. Given recent advances in both software and hardware, there has been a veritable boom in the production of 3D digital models of cultural heritage. These 3D digital models represent significant investments and stand at the intersection of claims to copyright of the digital replica and to ownership of the underlying digitized cultural property. Thus, it is understandable that creators of digital products, cultural heritage institutions, and owners of cultural property may desire to have control over the use, characteristics, and dissemination of VH models. Despite the growing prevalence of 3D digital models in VH, their role in the production of new knowledge remains to be examined in depth. This dissertation presents the design, development, and implementation of a publicly available tool for the protected visualization of high-resolution 3D VH models in a web browser. First, I survey the historical precedents for the use of 3D digital models in VH and its related fields, with special attention to the epistemological function of models. Second, current practices and needs are documented through surveys and interviews with VH scholars. Third, I present the basic visualization tool and demonstrate its security and usability. Finally, the results of the literature review, surveys, and interviews are used to design and implement a more fully featured visualization tool based on protected remote rendering, one intended to more clearly address the actual needs and practices of scholars in the new field of VH.
dc.language en
dc.publisher [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University
dc.rights This work is under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any format as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material as long as you give appropriate credit to the original creator, provide a link to the license, and indicate any changes made. You may not use this work for commercial purpose and must distribute any contributions under an identical license.
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subject Virtual Heritage
dc.subject Models
dc.subject Remote Rendering
dc.subject WebGL
dc.subject 3D Scanning
dc.subject Art History
dc.title Extending Model Use in Virtual Heritage: User-Centric Implementation of a Protected Remote Rendering Visualization Tool
dc.type Doctoral Dissertation


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