Computers & Graphics journal special section on Cultural Heritage

Computers & Graphics journal special section on Cultural Heritage

An increasing number of Cultural Heritage professionals are using Computer Graphics technology to unlock and document the secrets of humanity’s legacy. Earlier this year, a recent special issue of this journal published some of the important results from the intersection of these two fields [1]. The level of interest and the quality of submissions was such that an additional special section is ...

Special Section on Cultural Heritage

Over the last two decades, there have been many high profile success stories where cutting edge computer graphics (CG) technology was used in collaboration with cultural heritage (CH) professionals to unlock the secrets of humanity’s legacy. Well known examples include the empirical 3D acquisition of Michelangelo’s David, the laser scan-based 3D mapping of the tombs found in the Valley of the K...

Computers & graphics special section on visual analytics

The increasing amount of heterogeneous data from different data sources is a challenging problem in many areas. Visual Analytics, a discipline which emerged in the last decade, tries to cope with this issue. Visual Analytics is “the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by visual interfaces” [1]. In other words, Visual Analytics is a combination of automatic, visual, and interactive metho...

Humanities , Computers and Cultural Heritage Royal Netherlands

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Volume Graphics and Point-Based Graphics

WELCOME to the special section on volume graphics and point-based graphics. Volume graphics deals with the analysis, synthesis, and presentation of volumetric phenomena, both static and time varying. This includes topics related to the acquisition, reconstruction, and transformation of volume data as well as feature analysis, information extraction, and rendering. Point-based graphics deals wit...