1. Fusion of 3D Information
for Visualizing Virtual Museums
Chiung-min Tsai
Research Center for Digital Humanities,
National Taiwan University
2010. 12. 17

2. Expecting Museums
“As their designated
missions, museums are
institutes to provide
both functions of
academic research and
social education.”
Hiroshi Shidehara, 1939
The First President,
Taihoku University

3. Collections are organized
Ordered, Categorized, Classified
Deploying Knowledge Carefully
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4. But they are also dead
The History of Death Meditative Necropolis
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5. And/or imperialist symbols
Displaying Objects and Monuments
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6. Museum exhibits are designed,
therefore,
– Bring Cultural and Scientific Heritages
to the Communities
– For People Experiencing
Lives and Culture Visually
Virtual Tour:
Smithsonian &
Louvre
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7. Visualizing Information
Old Chinese Saying:
“Tell me and I’ll forget.
Show me and I may remember…
Involve me and I’ll understand.”
Richard Templar,
The Rules of Management
聞之不若見之，見之不若知之，知之不若行之，學至乎行而止矣
——荀子
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8. Why visualizing
“The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations
of abstract data to amplify cognition.”
“The process of analyzing and transforming non-spatial data into an
effective visual form”
“A highly efficient way for the mind to directly perceive data and
discover knowledge and insight from it”
“The visual appearance of data objects and their relationships”
“The transformation of abstract data to a visual representation,
which is rapidly understood by the user”
Card, Mackinlay & Shneiderman (eds.), 1999
“Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think,”
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9. Presenting with technology
3D information visualization
presentation techniques
• Surface plots
• Cityscapes
• Fish-eye views
• Landscape
• Perspective walls
• Trees
• Sphere
• Rooms
…… in an unreal, virtual space
that opens up behind the surface.
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10. Constructing 3D VR
Geometry-based Image-based
objects and scenes may not exist existed objects & scenes
interactive motion limitation
computation required for better computation is relative, suitable
scene construction. for real-time applications.
not as real immersive
3D modeling & scanning required no model construction needed
*May be Augmented with Virtual or Real Things
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11. 3D VR Applications
• Entertainment
• Computer-aided design
• Scientific visualisation
• Education and training
• Computer art
• Cultural heritage
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13. Showcasing Taiwan (I)
Kenting National Park 3D GIS
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14. Showcasing Taiwan (II)
National Marine Museum 3D Tours
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15. Showcasing Taiwan (III)
National Marine Museum 3D
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16. Showcasing Taiwan (IV)
National Taiwan University Rock Objects
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17. Showcasing Taiwan (V)
National Taiwan University Insect Images
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18. Showcasing Taiwan (VI)
Virtual Gallery of Law and Culture
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19. 臺大博物館群
National Taiwan University Museums
v各館校園佔地總面積約為7010平方公尺
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20. NTU Museums & Campus
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21. NTU Museum Collections
Archives
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22. NTU Museum Collections
Botany
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23. NTU Museum Collections
Entomology
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24. NTU Museum Collections
Geosciences
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25. NTU Museum Collections
Anthropology
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26. NTU Museum Collections
Zoology
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27. NTU Museum Collections
Agriculture
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28. NTU Museum Collections
Physics
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30. Cooperating with
Digital Archives Projects
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31. digitalization means
making copies
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32. so we can make copies
…lots of copies
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33. What we called “remixed”
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34. With appropriate programming, such a display could
literally be the Wonderland into which Alice walked.
IVAN SUTHERLAND (1965)
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35. Technology makes it easy to…
 Share
 Use
 Copy
 Modify
 Repurpose
 Distribute
 Excerpt/Quote from
 Share
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36. Exampling NTU Museum Exhibition
藏品、記憶、社群
Memory Recollected

37. Representation, Visualization,
& Imagination
…… they have a function in relation to
all the space that remains.
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40. Accumulation of Times
……are most often linked to
slices in time.
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46. Differences & Interpretations
……capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces,
several sites that are in themselves incompatible.
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49. Birds of Asia, Specimen collected, Picture and Sound
1862, John Gould 1917, I. Aoki 2003, Dep. of Zoology
Formosan Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
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51. Relations of Proximity
……… a sort of mixed, joint experience,
which would be the mirror.
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52. wonder  systematic
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54. Virtual-Real Complexity
Stereo Panorama

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56. Crossing Boundaries
空間 Geography
時間 Time
文化 Culture
領域 Discipline
媒材 Media
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57. Fusing Technology and Heritage
Materiality, representation, and imagination are not
separate worlds.
David Harvey
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58. We are making our museum …
• a Place for the Public
• Exhibition with Views
• a Click to the Real World
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59. To Preserve & Tell Our Histories
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60. To Make Connections
From ”Window Browsing” to “Network Weaving”
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61. To Promote Participation
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62. To Engage Communities
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63. Concluding Remarks
The museum, instead of being circumscribed as a geometric site,
is everywhere now, like a dimension of life.”
Jean Baudrillard
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64. Thank You
Please visit us:
http://www.museums.ntu.edu.tw/english/
Or write to us:
museums@ntu.edu.tw