e-Business - YOOX.COM
Author: Serena Mancini - YOOX
YOOX is the Global e-Commerce Partner for the Leading Fashion Brands. YOOX is Europe’s leader and the only player in the market with an operational presence in: - 25 European countries - United States and Canada - Japan With 400,000 items delivered to doorsteps across the globe in 2004 over 2 million visits every month, yoox.com has recently been recognized by VOGUE UK as one of the top 100 greatest fashion shops.
Web site: http://www.yoox.com
e-Culture - Sito Internet dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Author: Jacopo Tonini - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Il sito Internet dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza presenta una formidabile quantità di materiali ed è costituito da diverse decine di migliaia di pagine. Si rivolge a diverse fasce di utenza: studiosi, pubblico generico, scuole. Ai i primi offre ampi archivi specialistici corredati da sofisticati strumenti di ricerca: cataloghi bibliografici, biblioteche digitali, archivi iconografici ma anche archivi specializzati come quello dedicato a Galileo Galilei e a molti altri argomenti della storia della scienza. Al pubblico meno esperto e alle scuole offre numerose sezioni ricche di contenuti multimediali: immagini, applicazioni interattive, materiali da scaricare e stampare, il tutto accompagnato da testi semplici ma rigorosi. In particolare è da menzionare il Catalogo Multimediale di tutti gli strumenti conservati presso il Museo, con animazioni che ne spiegano il funzionamento e filmati di contestualizzazione storica, oltre a una fitta rete ipertestuale di rimandi ad approfondimenti tematici. E ancora la serie degli Strumenti Scientifici on-line, per raccontare in maniera esauriente gli strumenti più rappresentativi della collezione, con attività interattive di simulazione ed esplorazione virtuale. Non manca, naturalmente, la sezione che presenta l’Istituto e il Museo, con l’organigramma del personale e le modalità di accesso. Infine, una sezione di news permette di essere sempre informati sulle attività di IMSS, come pubblicazioni, mostre e convegni.
Web site: http://www.imss.fi.it/indice.html
e-Entertainment - soultube
Author: flaneurs s.r.l. - flaneurs s.r.l.
Soultube è un ambiente virtuale che ripropone l’atmosfera di una metropolitana prevedendo la partecipazione degli utenti a una scrittura collettiva, che si costruisce attraverso i racconti che gli stessi utenti fanno grazie alle percezioni stimolate uno dall’altro. Ogni passeggero che sale sul vagone lascia un profilo con la propria descrizione. Ogni profilo è leggibile dagli altri passeggeri come stimolo a raccontare una storia. Al capolinea, i racconti di ogni passeggero, scritti e ricevuti, vengono resi pubblici. Come sulle vere metropolitane, o sui veri autobus, o tram, i passeggeri di soultube si guardano e si incontrano per pochi attimi, per poi riprendere ognuno la propria vita. Su soultube, però si fermano qualche istante in più, per trovare il racconto che ognuno fa quotidianamente dell'altro, immaginando una storia, un passato o inventando un futuro, dando vita a quelle storie mai narrate, ispirate da volti, segni e gesti colti fugacemente tra una fermata e l'altra.
Web site: http://www.soultube.org
e-Government - web site of the Italian National Police
Author: Roberto Sgalla - Polizia di Stato
The institutional website of the Italian National Police offers citizens news, information and services. It provides online forms, online advice by experts and a communication channel with the Police through the “ci comunicate che …” e-mail service. The website also offers a wide range of interactive and/or multimedia services such as: online crime reporting, access to data banks, a donwload area (desktop backgrounds, screen savers, music files), video streaming, a photo and video gallery, virtual tours, a gallery of recovered stolen property and an area with interactive services for children. The website hosts awareness campaigns to foster law-abiding behaviour and the protection of the most vulnerable as well as solidarity campaigns. Special attention is paid to accessibility. Both contents and technical aspects are managed solely by personnel of the National Police.
Web site: http://www.poliziadistato.it
e-Health - The Dream island
Author: Alessandra Preziosa - Istituto Auxologico Italiano
this product is an integrated VR based system which aims to help user in relaxation using VR during the treatment with the therapist and videos extracted from VR implemented on mobile phones to continue the treatment
Web site: http://www.atnplab.com
e-Inclusion - Banca digitale accessibile
Author: Marco Buratti - Banca Popolare di Sondrio
Nel corso del 2002 è maturata, presso la struttura "Ufficio Sistemi Innovativi" della Banca Popolare di Sondrio che si occupa degli sviluppi in ambito Internet, l'idea di progettare i servizi bancari - in particolar modo quelli innovativi - secondo una "logica etica"; idea motivata sia dalla curiosità di sperimentare nuove tecnologie e nuovi canali di delivery, sia dal desiderio di permettere la fruizione del nostro consistente patrimonio di servizi e informazioni modellandoli per un accesso indipendente.
Web site: http://www.popso.it
e-Learning - “Musealising” the Virtual: the Virtual Reality Project of the Scrovegni Chapel of Padua
Author: Maurizio Forte, Claudio Rufa, Eva Pietroni - CNR-ITABC
The Scrovegni Chapel, painted by Giotto in the period 1303-1305, is one of the most important masterpiece of the European art. Because of serious problems of preservation, the paintings have been restored in the last two years but the accessibility of the monument is now restricted to a little number of visitors (20 people any time) and to a short time (15 minutes). In order to solve these problems of fruition the municipality of Padua planned the creation of an hypermedia room (10 x 20 m) hosting multimedia and museum installations concerning the contextualization of Giotto’s world and of the Scrovegni Chapel. The most important installation is a virtual reality system created by the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage of National Research Council, aimed to a spatial 3D reconstruction and re-composition of the information regarding Giotto’s paintings and the internal architecture of the monument (33.000 polygons in real time, 500 links, more than 100 menus). The multimedia room hosts seven installations (physical and virtual exhibitions). The seven installations are aimed to learn the historic and artistic context in which Giotto lived and worked. This “cognitive box” can suggest the people passive and active interactions (interactive DVD, multimedia, movies, virtual reality) or physical reconstruction (Giotto’s subjects and scenes like the St. Anne’s house). This multi-interactive approach is aimed to introduce, to alphabetize and to contextualize the visit to the Chapel on the basis of a multifactor learning with three main steps: immersion, expectation, visit. At the end of the real and of the virtual visit, the user will can come to explore again the virtual model, according to a process of informative anakyclosis (a “cognitive circle”: virtual-real-virtual-real again). So the cultural learning, in the alternative real and virtual phases, comes for redundancy and for the spatial contextualization of the data; the user-visitor follows informative paths adding in progress new levels of learning. The anakyclosis is concluded when a mental information is identified (“already seen”, “already acquired”, “already memorised”) and with the faculty of elaborating it. In conclusion, starting from the redundancy of the informative geometry, dealing the same argument, a permanent cognitive feedback will can be created, increasing the faculties of learning and of memorising. The installation typologies of the hypermedia room are distinguished by the following features: narrative (installation 1), virtual- cognitive (installation 2), multimedia (installations 3, 5 and 6), exhibited (installations 4 and 7). The installation 1 is a DVD displayed on a panoramic screen and it concerns a collective experience. The installations 3 and 5 are multimedia and interactive DVD movies; they produce context and feedback of the project; the installations 4 and 7 recreate a physical environment. The installation 2, the virtual reality system, is the focus of the exhibition and it represents the maximum level of interactivity and of virtual-cognitive increment. Finally, one of the key points of the project is in the propaedeutic digital immersion to the visit and to the attempt of “musealising” the virtual, that is using the multimedia installations like a real museum exhibition, composed by its own grammars and expressive languages. So each installation has its own shared territory, represented by the space in which the visitors interact, and a contextual connective territory (virtual), where multimedia information are located according to an incremented reality. We can define this space an “invisible space” where each territory of attraction is located; on the basis of this territory the visitor can stop for a short or a long time, interacting with the digital content, exchanging collective experiences, finally recreating his own mental map with the visual and sensorial stimulation he receives and elaborates. In this direction the projects aims to “musealize” the Virtual, to re-create mutual interactions between all the installations. 1. The Virtual Project On the basis of the above-mentioned considerations the accessibility to the Chapel is limited or in the time of visit, or in the strong difficulty to see and to understand all the scenes and the paintings (distance, light, complexity of the subjects). Therefore the virtual reality project is aimed not to substitute the real visit to the Scrovegni Chapel (about 15 minutes), but to prepare it, to integrate it, to re-contextualize it, alphabetizing in real time the visitors with new and immersive visual grammars and with all the interactions in 3D and in real time. The sequence should be circular: before of the visit (virtual alphabetization) – during the visit (real alphabetization) – after the visit (virtual re- alphabetization); the great challenge of the project is to increase and to accelerate the cognitive impact of the cultural learning through very advanced tools such as three-dimensional interaction in real time and hundreds of virtual behaviors of the application. Therefore, in a very short time, the users should learn and acquire much more information using VR than using “linear” tools and actions, such as books, audio guides, catalogues and so on. This interaction and learning in VR is of reticular type(information spatially connected within a 3D cyber-net) because the use is immersed within reticules of information and visual data. For example in the nineties most part of the virtual reality projects in the cultural heritage were involving 10-20 behaviors (interactions) for each application, while in our application we have 500 links and behaviors. We define a behavior a real-time interaction in the 3D space (3D hot areas, 3D movements and visualizations, 3D simulations, etc.). Each interaction is carried out from its own system of virtual alphabetization; a new “alphabet” can suggest a different and fast perception of the visual and interactive space; in this way advanced directions of digital learning will be promoted so that the audience can receive in a very short time a relevant quantity of information. This mental re-composition is a new map. The application has been made by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, programmers, cognitivists, historians of art, multimedia experts, visual psychologists and this is one of the key points to stress: when we have a good synergy of social, human and hard sciences we obtain important results. Finally this project suggests an important further consideration: what future will be for the fruition of cultural heritage with high risks of preservation? Which aims the institutions for the protection of the monuments have to follow? To protect the cultural heritage means also to detract to the public fruition? In order to transform an “armored” (protected but not valorized) cultural heritage in a “disseminated” heritage, we think that the role of desktop virtual reality systems is fundamental, because it opens new horizons to the collective and domestic cultural fruition/consume. 4. Interface and technical descriptions The characteristics of the interface are substantially different from canonical multimedia applications, because all links are integrated in the 3D spatial model; for this reason all functions related to the movement and dynamic interaction must be supported. In the use of texture mapping we have provided for two levels of detail: a first intermediate level of detail for a comprehensive vision of the model and the scenes, and a second high level of detail where it is possible to appreciate every particular of each scene from a very near distance, simulating, in this way, a quality of visualization that is totally inaccessible during the real visit. For navigating through the model, the user can use the mouse (free rotation) and some keys of the keyboard (linear movements in all the directions). The keyboard can be replaced by a console made on purpose, with only the necessary keys, constructed with more esthetical and functional attention to make it easier to use. In a second moment it will be possible to implement the navigation by the use of a joystick. The application presents two versions: in Italian and in English language. The choice of the language is possible on the start of the program, and later, in every moment during the virtual exploration, by selecting the contextual menu. The starting interface of the application is the entrance into the chapel, where the user is free to navigate through the global 3D space. This spatial dimension represents the first level of detail. At the beginning of the navigation no themes are activated and no elements can be selected. For querying the scenes and for opening other types of contents it is necessary to visualize the main menu. The main menu is accessible using the mouse right click to avoid visual disturbs during the virtual navigation; it is composed by two sections. The first section can be defined VISIT (available for both levels of detail) and it is relative to the sequences of the virtual visit according to the available documentation and to the level of detail of visualization; the second section can be defined TOOLS and provides some typological interactions and utilities in order to interpret the space of the virtual chapel and the organization of the structured contents. Some of these tools have been just implemented, other ones will be added in a future development of the project. The main menu, at the first level of detail, allows a free access to all the general types of readings and interpretations of the pictorial cycle and it presents the “magnifying scene” function. So, the items of the first section of menu (VISIT) are: Magnify scenes Themes concerning the general meaning and the symbolic content of the paintings: Thematic reading Exegetical reading Reading according to the lighting of the walls Themes concerning the pictorial style: The light The color The composition The space The thematic reading is referred to the development of the story in the fresco scenes, and it explains the organisation of the narrative contents in three registers over the space of the walls. The Exegetical reading concerns the correspondence of symbolic content between couples of scenes of New and Ancient Testament, according to a custom of Mediaeval Art. The reading according to the lighting of the walls proposes an interpretation of narrative and symbolic contents of the scenes on the basis of their conditions of lighting. For instance it is possible to notice that Giotto painted the stories happened by night, or characterised by a “psychological night”, on the darkest wall of the chapel. Then the themes regarding the pictorial style are referred to particular innovative aspects of the Giotto’s art. Every theme is introduced by an audio comment, whose function is to anticipate some general concepts related with the theme selected; at the end of this introduction the most representative scenes or elements are pointed out in the 3D model and the user can select them clicking directly in the 3D space, in order to have access to particular contents. The second section of the contextual menu at the first level of detail, offers a kit of TOOLS, that allows the user to interpret the virtual and cognitive space in a more effective way. FOV commands There are two cameras available to explore and move through the 3D model of the chapel: the first one has a field of view of 60 degrees, the second one allows a wider visualization of the space with a field of view of 80 degrees. Measure command It is possible to visualize into the 3D model a tool of measure, partitioned in meters, showing the dimensions of the chapel: height, width, length. In addition a human silhouette allows to establish the spatial scale and to acquire a correct sense of proportions. Cybermap command Thanks to a three-dimensional cybermap (an hypertextual map in three dimensions) it is possible to compare the informative “planets” proposed by the applications and all the connective networks of information, exploring their spatial relations. In the cybermap a scene becomes a cube, a theme a solid, different colors distinguish classes of information and semantic associations. The cybermap can be defined as a compass, helping to understand the informative skeleton of a cultural product (a sort of digital “genetic code”). Since the space in which it extends corresponds with the virtual space of the chapel, it is always possible to examine to which scene or group of scenes of the pictorial sequence the conceptual links are associated. Crypt command In the Crypt under the chapel, inaccessible to visitors, another vault full of stars has been discovered; the application allows to enter into the crypt and looking, in transparency, through the sky of this vault, at the entire decoration of the overhanging chapel. Perhaps this is one of the mysteries of Giotto’s art: to represent the chapel (or two chapels ?) through two world: Worldly, the crypt, and Heavenly, the chapel with the Last Judgment. Reflected light command This command allows to simulate hypothetically the light of torches on the painted walls, because it is not clear yet how the chapel was enlightened in origin. The effect emphasizes shining and thickness of gold haloes. Illusion command In a future upgrade of the application the reconstruction of all the scenes in three dimensions will be implemented in order to allow the users to enter into the frescos with new perspectives of spatial display. Restoration command In a second step of the work it will be necessary to visualize the textured model with the orto-photomosaic of the last restorations. This documentation is very important because it adds further tools of interpretation of the structure and of the style of the paintings. 4.1 The second level of detail When we choose a scene to magnify, we activate the second level of detail, so it is possible to explore each single scene at a higher resolution. Approximately each scene occupies 35 MB of graphic memory. The contextual menu at this second level of detail contains the following items: Themes concerning the understanding of the specific meaning of the scene: Description Characters Other themes related with the pictorial style, available for the selected scene: The Light The color The composition The space If Description is selected, an audio comment will explain the narrative content of the scene. If a character is selected a short text will appear and it will identify the character, explaining the action he his performing and quoting the Bible section that describes him in the represented attitude. In this way it will be possible, in each scene, to reach a lot of themes transversally. For instance, if a user is examining the composition, he can proceed to the space, selecting it from the second level menu, without being obliged to come back to the first level menu. 4.2 The Last Judgement The emotional and solemn impact of the Last Judgment has requested a different organization of information and some dedicated interpretations. The contextual menu contains some specific items for examining and understanding complex spatial structure and symbolic meaning of the representation. For instance it is possible to listen to particular comments about the representation of the space, on the basis of the hierarchical relations and of the geography of the hereafter, such as they were imagined in the Middle age. 4.3 Music and sounds Music is introduced in a random way into the virtual exploration; contemporary pieces alternate with other types of sounds and effects: ancient choral pieces, electronic music, voices, murmurs, whispers, stampings on the floor, dripping water and so on. This musical dialectics produces a more effective and disquieting emotional impact in the user. 5. C++ Programming It is important to stress that this project was directed from the beginning towards desktop applications for PCs and personal workstation equipped with OpenGl graphic cards; in particular we have implemented the system for graphic cards Wildcat III 6110 with 128 MB texture, 64 MB frame buffer, 16 MB direct burst and antialising. With this configuration we have obtained a frame rate of 40; in terms of general statistics related with the software and the virtual model we have: 82.561 code lines, 33.603 polygons, 3 GB of textures, 1.2 GB of audio, 100 menus, 500 links. Main aim is to create an application easy to use and very stable because we estimate an intensive use from hundreds people for ten hours each day. The application was written in C++ without using graphical commercial library or engine [ ]; the operating system is Windows 2000 Professional. For the best comprehension of the structure we can subdivide it in these items: rendering, texturing, geometry data, sounds, text, user interaction. A Finite-state machine with all the possible conditions was created in order to manage all the situations of free navigation. Rendering: the choice of OpenGL was necessary because the Wildcat graphic cards don’t have a full support of DirectX. This limitation imposes us to not use DirectShow in some situations like full screen movies. Very often we use two layers of visualization: the back layer with the free 3D navigation and the front layer with bi-dimensional images synchronized with an audio file. This was possible creating one viewport with the back layer with a perspective projection and the front layer with an orthographic projection, rendered in the same time. This mechanism was used also for the 100 menus of the application and for display the text. Textures: a serious problem we have faced up was the high resolution of textures. It was clear that the most powerful graphic card don’t have video memory enough to display all the textured chapel with an adequate resolution. The solution was to create two main states: the first level, with all the chapel mapped with 72 textures, with a dimension of 512 X 512 pixel each one, and the second level, that presents a single scene composed by 9 textures of 1024 X 1024 pixel each one. A strong attention was paid to avoid possible memory leaks during the swapping. Geometry: the application loads in memory the geometry data during the init function. A DLL was created with all the data disposed like OpenGL Display List. The total amount of the data is 2.50 MB. Sound: we have used DirectSound with some simple functions. Text: In some situations the user can activate a small text scrolling in the screen. The text is a front bi-dimensional layer over a 3D back layer. User interaction: we can divide the user input in two main groups: the navigation input and the query input. The navigation input is in 3D space, the user can use the mouse to rotate the camera and 6 keys to move the camera in any linear direction. In order to query the scene the user have two possibility: to pick one hotspot in the 3D space or activate, with a right click, a contextual menu. In some situations the user can pick till 87 hotspots in the model, while the maximum number of items in the menu is 20. 6. Conclusion: epistemology of the Virtual A very complex virtual reality project such as the case of the Scrovegni Chapel, suggests several considerations or technological or epistemological. The first depend strongly on the second and represent a fundamental base of discussion for interdisciplinary projects and for a correct interpretation of the cybernetics and of all the applications in this field. According to Howard Rheingold we can imagine virtual reality like a magic window open to other worlds, from the molecules to the mind. About Wooley the virtual reality is that technology used for creating a specific interface between human being and images produced by computer. About Pierre Levy virtuality and actuality are two different ways of being: the Virtual is not the opposite of the Real but of the Actual. So, the Real is diluted in the Virtual, it represents its conceptual thought, visual and abstract, anyway communicative. It is fundamental to avoid in toto the opposition of Real-Virtual (both are ontology), but also to understand the Virtual as “succedaneum” or a simple simulation of the Real, because this simplification doesn’t help to understand the epistemic value of a complex technology. The artificial world can’t simulate the Real, but it can increased it, decreased it, code it, interpret it. It is a common opinion to think that the search of the photorealism is a primary goal of the virtual reality, but the Virtual doesn’t aim to the Real, but it changes about its representation. The digital photoreality doesn’t increase necessarily the perception, it fits simply description and illusion of the reality to the artificial worlds. In the digital photoreality the illusion to model the Real is created, but anyway a new context is created, that is a new Real. Therefore contextualization and spatial connectivity of the information represent the base of this type of digital technology. On the basis of this principle of cognitive visualization, the more the interactivity seems very close to the Real, the more the orientation and alphabetization of the user will increase. On the opposite virtual reality has to suggest new grammars of communication and inter-connection, directed to the exchange of information, events and behaviors, apart from principles of likelihood to the “true” or to the “presumable”. For instance, walking through the ancient Pompeii reconstructed in 3D like “it was”, I don’t have necessarily a significant exchange of information between my mental map and the topography of the site, but I should have it in the creation of new mental maps and visual grammars, in the contextualization and spatial measurability of the data. The rules of meta-representation of the Virtual regard also the artistic thought: with regard to this, Arnheim writes that: “If we consider famous pictures of the past– Raphael’s, Rembrandt’s […] – without a deep attention – they would have seen expressly precise copies of natures, landscapes, insides, still life, human beings. Was it probable that they knew presence of totally abstract patterns and, as images, they meant something of completely different ?” [ ]. The same principle ruling construction and perception of abstract patterns, of sensible informative geometry, much different from the Real, can be found in the virtual reality applications and they represent a visual thinking. Virtual Reality is itself symbolic, because it communicates through abstractions: “An image acts like a symbol when it figures things at a higher level of abstraction than the symbol itself is. According to the cybernetics of G.Bateson, the learning is “through difference”, the perception acts only on the difference. Receiving, grabbing information means always and necessarily to receive news of difference, and perception of the difference is always limited from a threshold. Differences too slight or presented too slowly are not perceptible: they don’t feed the perception. Science doesn’t prove, it tries. The Bateson’s theory of the knowledge is fit to explain the mechanisms of processing information: data are neutral objects, the knowledge of a spatial system is for interaction (difference) between the components or for the simulation of connected events. The more difference increases in the virtual interaction, the more learning increases. According to the thought of Korzybski “the map is not the land”, in the virtual reality the “map is the land”: this is the “cybernetic revolution”, or the priority scientific aim of the virtual reality. In the Virtual the “difference” represents the cognitive value of the artificial environment, of the logic of the reticular learning; in the dynamic of events and interactive environments, a difference is created, preamble of the cognitive acquisition. The Virtual can be interpreted in structuralist sense, where the whole, interpreted like context, is more than any single part, because it increases the level of information; the construction of the context is the first step for enriching, increasing the learning. The construction of the context is the fundamental base for increasing the learning, opening new perspectives and cognitive approaches. In this increment the epistemic value of the technology was identified: to catalyze the psico-perception and the learning through visual and informative complex environments. In the field of the cultural-virtual heritage the predominance of the “visual” than the “perceptive” dominated most part of the projects of the nineties. It is important to remark that, actually, the potentialities technologically and cognitively more interesting are: interactivity, events, behaviors, multiusers, immersivity. A new and disseminated revolution of the virtual reality has to be started or it is starting. This is the Batesonian methodological approach we have followed in this project; it demonstrates how it is possible to write C++ software for cultural heritage applications and, specifically, for PCs with OpenGl graphic cards applying a specific and coherent philosophy of visual thinking and reticular learning. In terms of technology and methodological approach we believe that DVR systems open new meaningful perspectives for fruition, valorization and learning of cultural heritage: low cost hardware and new devices of visualization will increase a strong and new consume of virtual-digital heritage. In the case of the Scrovegni Chapel we hope it is possible to create satellite virtual reality centers out of the territory of Padua, so that to increase the virtual visitors of this masterpiece of the western art: that is, new consumes of digital cultural contents produce a wide dissemination of the world cultural heritage, saving our collective human memory archives.
Web site: http://www.cnr.it/istituti/Focusperistituto.html?cds=098
e-Science - CARPINIANA. A Virtualized Byzantine Crypt
Author: Virginia Valzano - Coordinamento SIBA - Università degli Studi di Lecce
An effective approach based upon high-resolution photo-realistic texture mapping onto 3D models generated from range images is used to present the spatial information about the Crypt. Usually, this information is presented on 2D images that are flat and don't show the three-dimensionality of an environment. In recent years, highresolution recording of heritage sites has stimulated a lot of research in fields like photogrammetry, computer vision, and computer graphics. The methodology we present should appeal to people interested in 3D for heritage. It is applied to the virtualization of a Byzantine Crypt where geometrically correct texture mapping is essential to render the environment realistically, to produce virtual visits and to apply virtual restoration techniques. A CDROM and a video animation have been created to show the results.
Un approccio efficace, basato sulla mappatura di una texture fotorealistica ad alta risoluzione su modelli 3D generati da scansioni 3D, è stato utilizzato per presentare l'informazione spaziale della Cripta bizantina di S. Cristina in Carpignano Salentino (LE). I risultati sono stati pubblicati su un CD-ROM multimediale e su un DVD video.
YT e-content on creativity &culture - Noi - interactive book
Author: Max Coppeta -
Evoluzione / ispirazione del software I Tuoi Ricordi, il progetto nasce dall’osservazione del comportamento di oggetti fotorealistici in ambienti digitali, e dalla possibilità di poter interagire con essi simulando il mondo “reale” al fine di rendere immersiva l’esperienza proposta. Abbiamo pensato ad un libro, in quanto possibile contenitore di testi, foto, video, è cominciato quindi lo studio sulle ombre “proprie” e “portate” delle pagine sulle pagine per ottenere un risultato soddisfacente abbiamo lavorato soprattutto su di esse. Nel nostro libro simulato l’idea della tridimensionalità è data da due ombre proprie e due portate che sincronicamente si spostano insieme a una terza pagina scorrendo sulle prime due. La seconda fase altrettanto fondamentale è stata quella dell’interazione, anche qui abbiamo dovuto a lungo studiare come si “comportava” una pagina nel movimento e il nostro compito è stato quello di simulare il peso visivo e far sì che la pagina potesse reagire in modo naturale, cadendo da un lato o dall’altro nel momento in cui fosse stata lasciata o ripresa subito dopo. Il risultato ottenuto è stato al di sopra delle nostre aspettative, testando l’esperienza su di un monitor touch screen abbiamo recuperato il movimento del braccio, della mano e del dito nell’azione dello sfogliare. Adesso non ci resta che simulare il tatto ma per questo dovremmo aspettare che alcune tecnologie diventino alla portata di tutti. Da queste piccole osservazioni nasce NOI, immersi in un’atmosfera magica un libro dalle pagine bianche prende vita grazie all’interazione con l’utente. Esperimento che vede come fulcro dell’operazione un testo poetico (Noi di Carmina Esposito) reso con animazioni che giocano sul senso delle parole, dando nuovi stimoli visivi. Le lettere diventano segni, le parole concetto, le animazioni emozioni.
Web site: http://www.maxcoppeta.it/noi
YT e-content on development - Euromania
Author: Raffaele Russo nato il 6.08.1979 - Individuale
Euromania è on-line dal lontano 27 Febbraio 2002, subito dopo la circolazione dell'Euro in Italia, la mia idea è nata per la preparazione di un esame universitario (Mass-Media = 30 e Lode) e dall'esame ad oggi gestisco il sito con tanta passione.
Web site: http://euromania.altervista.org/
YT e-content on freedom of expression and engagement - ADELINQUERE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
Author: Alessandro PIETRANTONIO nato il 2.10.1985 - 515 creative shop
ADELINQUERE conteporary arts WAS SET UP IN DECEMBRE 2000 IN A SMALL EXHIBITION SPACE IN THE HISORIC HEART OF TURIN, AND COMPRISES A YOUNG RESEARRCH GROUP ORGANISING EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE ADVERTISING WORLD. WITHOUT BEING TIED TO SELLING ARTWORKS. // ADELINQUERE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA communicates art, sets up spaces and gathers material for its own pubblication.
Web site: http://www.515.it/adelinquere