3D visualisation of historical objects
or – how to create your own online 3D model of a sword or music box
Teacher: Mgr. Ján Korekáč, PhD.
Form of teaching: lecture with seminar (P:1 / S:1)
ECTS: 4
Objective:
The course is designed especially for study programmes in archives, museology and digitization of historical heritage, history of art, aesthetics, history, archaeology, but also for students interested in the use of modern technologies in the documentation and access to historical heritage.
Students will receive information on how the imaging of historical objects has evolved from the earliest times (camera obscura, physical models) through 2D-models to interactive 3D-models. With the help of simple software, they gain knowledge about the origin or further existence of an architectural or, in a narrower sense, an artistic work from map, pictorial or written sources. At the end they will independently collect and analyse this information in the form of a seminar paper.
Brief outline:
- Introduction (digital immigrants and digital natives, digital turn in society)
- 2D representations of spaces and objects in the past
- 3D visualizations in historical sciences and examples of good projects
- Case study: from historical source research to the representation of urban structure in a 3D model
- Using the example of medieval Bratislava – how to get from idea to research to 3D printing
- Technical solutions: from point cloud to 3D-visualisation
- Photogrammetry and simple freely available applications for 3D-visualization of historical objects (3DFZephyr and Blender) – 4 to 5 hours of practical work with freely available applications in class.
- excursion to the Digitization Center at the Monuments Office of the Slovak Republic
Requirements for completion of the course:
Completion of the final colloquium (20% of the grade) and submission of a seminar paper (presentation of the student's own 3D-model of the object of his/her choice - 80%). The lecturer accepts a maximum of 3 absences.
Recommended literature:
Online tutorials as recommended by the instructor.
