DOI:10.1145/2950040
contributed articles
A full-body virtual autopsy of
an ancient Egyptian mummy showed
visitors he was likely murdered.
BY ANDERS YNNERMAN, THOMAS RYDELL, DANIEL ANTOINE,
DAVID HUGHES, ANDERS PERSSON, AND PATRIC LJUNG
Interactive
Visualization
of 3D Scanned
Mummies at
Public Venues
key insights
BY COMBINING VISUALIZATION techniques with interactive
multi-touch tables and intuitive user interfaces, visitors
to museums and science centers can conduct self-guided
tours of large volumetric image data. In an interactive
learning experience, visitors become the explorers of
otherwise invisible interiors of unique artifacts and
subjects. Here, we take as our starting point the state of
the art in scanning technologies, then discuss the latest
research on high-quality interactive volume rendering
and how it can be tailored to meet the specific demands
˽ Volumetric visualization, together with
CT scanning, creates opportunities for
science communication, as visitors to
public venues interactively explore the
hidden interiors of rare museum artifacts
and biological remains.
˽ Curating data and producing stories are
bottlenecks for curators, interpreters,
and exhibition designers; software
solutions for supporting this workflow
are lacking.
˽ Social context and engagement at public
venues is available through touch tables
with high resolution, image quality, and
graphics performance together with
user-interface design, balancing free
exploration and guided storytelling.
