Components
of the Museum of Pure Form
The Museum of Pure Form system
is composed by a video subsystem of 3D projection and a haptic
subsystem for force feed-back. The haptic subsystem reproduces
the contact forces generated by the interaction with the digital
model through a haptic interface, so that the user may perceive
a replica of the forces generated during the contact on his/her
hand, together with the virtual representation of the movements
of his/her hand along the surface of the digital model.
The realization of the “Museum of
Pure Form” will be addressed through the achievement
of several operational minor goals.
The three-dimensional digital acquisition
of sculptures will be performed by capturing the geometric
features of a selected set of sculptures belonging to museums
collection and thus constructing a solid model for each statue.
At the end of such process, a virtual library of digital models
will be created, comprising both ancient and modern pieces
of art. Such virtual collection will be shared among the museums,
participating in the project, by means of a customized computer
network.
Some medioeval and contemporary sculptures
from some relevant European museums have already been digitally
acquired. The choice of two historical-artistic periods which
are so different and distant is not accidental, but aims at
showing that the MPF can be used for a deeper fruition of
works of art belonging to different periods
The haptic paradigm of interaction will
be defined from a psycho-cognitive point of view. The most
suitable haptic rendering and collision detection algorithms
will be selected for the interaction with virtual sculptures.
During the third year of the project,
two exhibitions of the MPF system will be performed in sequence
at CGAC museum (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea of Santiago
de Compostela-Spain) for a period of five months and then
at OPAE museum (Opera della Primaziale of Pisa-Italy) for
other five months, where the MPF system will be finally left.
A specific area of such museums will be used as the site of
the “Museum of Pure Form”. Such area will have to
accommodate the HI systems as well as a projector and a large
screen, and thus must be properly instrumented.
A computer web-based network will be
defined and implemented. Such network will allow partners
CGAC and OPAE to share a common collection of digital models
of sculptures. Each sculpture will have a haptic digital model
as well as a visual one and a file describing the history
and data describing it.
The experimentation of a complete interaction
(by sight and touch) with digital sculptures will enlighten
on the limits and challenges of force feedback systems in
the fruition of digital art. |
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