Beth--
Yes, 3-D glasses are charming, aren't they? I sure wish I could see the objects you're describing. Where ae they? I know there are some museum exhibits that let you spin wire-frame drawings around (especially molecular structures), but the only ones I've seen transferred to the Web have been dinosaur bones . . . and not too intereactive at that.
--Todd Happer
Scientific American
On 5/13/99, Museum discussion list wrote:
>Hi Jo, Hi The List -
>Jo Hook at Monash University asked the List for "a museum Web site >that
>uses holograms or 3D effects to view objects, perhaps creating new >ways in
>which to see the object that may not be possible at the physical >museum?"
>and Todd Happer directed her to California Science Center in L.A. >which
>issues charming 3D glasses to view web images.
>
>When I hear a request for 3D images…I take that to mean the ability to
>"observe' an object in all its dimensions: interactively rotate it, get up
>close, turn it over, get inside! Many objects displayed in museums are
>either too valuable, too delicate, or too cumbersome to allow this sort of
>exploration. Yet true 3D modeling offers this! Imagine being able to get >so
>close to a painting you can observe the brush hairs sticking in the >paint?
>Turn it over and see the mounting and canvas treatment? Look inside a
>casting, peel off the layers of a construction, …and never set off a >single
>alarm in the process?
>
>The Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/museum/ uses kiosk rooms >and a web
>presence to display a large proportion of their collection…but has not >yet
>approached 3D representation of their objects. You can "zoom" an >image to
>observe closer detail, but cannot truly grab and rotate, invert, or crawl
>inside.
>
>3D technology has come a great distance in the last three to five >years,
>well past the red and blue glasses ;-). MRI-like images can be used >to
>"decompose" an object, the resultant images furnishing an armature on >which
>the 3D modeling can take place. Surfaces of a collection item can be
>captured in digitized image detail that boggle the human mind. And all >of
>it made available at museum touch screen kiosks, or in streaming >display, or
>on a web. Jo, I am as anxious as you are to find a museum site that >offers
>the public such an intimate view of their collections. In fact, I'd help
>build it, given the opportunity! What a blast that would be…..
>
>Beth Macdonald
>Big Head Interactive
>415/752.6511
>www.bigheadinteractive.com
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