I've just put a couple of samples up which may be useful - Please forgive
the utter lack of page design, but the models themselves are quite nice!
http://www.virtualexperience.co.uk/samples/Lamps/ Left click and drag to
rotate, right click and drag to move in and out
Cheers,
Mike
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Ottevanger, Jeremy
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:09 PM
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Subject: Re: 3-D images of museum objects
Lots of nice stuff from various sources, then. One thing that comes out
is that you can go for what amounts to a controllable movie or animated
GIF, where all the views consist of frames that were actually shot; or
you can go for something that uses a wireframe and texture map (perhaps
handbuilt, or perhaps derived from lots of photos) and allows you to see
the object from any angle. Tom and Tony's examples are of the former
type, Mike's and ours the latter. The former ones give you a much more
realistic appearance, but not the full 3D rotation (at least in these
examples). The latter let you spin any which way, but the downside is
that texture maps and lighting, whilst they can be good (Mike's
Colchester ones especially), still come across a bit CGI.
On balance, then, I'd say that if spinning on one axis is enough then
going Tom and Tony's way looks like the best bet. But it was a
relatively time-efficient process to make the 3DSOM models too, and you
can whack up the resolution if you like of both the wireframes and the
image overlay, so it's well worth considering. Plus you do get that
wireframe model you can import into other environments, whether that's
AutoCAD or Second Life.
Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy Ottevanger
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Tony Crockford
Sent: 26 February 2009 12:35
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Subject: Re: [MCG] 3-D images of museum objects
On 25 Feb 2009, at 17:08, Mark Nesbitt wrote:
> We are interested in showing fully rotatable objects on our website.
> The
> most important application for me would be items such as baskets,
> where basketmakers like to look at the techniques at a large number of
> points on an object. I've sometimes being asked to take multiple
> photos to capture this for basketmakers who cannot visit, but it is a
> poor substitute for "handling" an object.
we used this:
http://www.duckware.com/goround/index.html
for the images here:
http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/gorounds/goround1147.htm
http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/gorounds/goround1142.htm
http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/gorounds/goround1151.htm
http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/gorounds/goround1193.htm
http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/gorounds/goround1200.htm
http://www.torbytes.co.uk/op/gorounds/goround1201.htm
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