Resurrect3D: An Open and Customizable Platform for Visualizing and Analyzing Cultural Heritage Artifacts
This addresses the need for accessible and customizable tools in cultural heritage visualization, though it is incremental as it builds on existing visualization concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of visualizing and analyzing cultural heritage artifacts by introducing Resurrect3D, an open platform that provides an interactive toolbox with features like relighting and story creation, and allows customization through programming interfaces, enabling both casual users and experts to explore artifacts.
Art and culture, at their best, lie in the act of discovery and exploration. This paper describes Resurrect3D, an open visualization platform for both casual users and domain experts to explore cultural artifacts. To that end, Resurrect3D takes two steps. First, it provides an interactive cultural heritage toolbox, providing not only commonly used tools in cultural heritage such as relighting and material editing, but also the ability for users to create an interactive "story": a saved session with annotations and visualizations others can later replay. Second, Resurrect3D exposes a set of programming interfaces to extend the toolbox. Domain experts can develop custom tools that perform artifact-specific visualization and analysis.