Georg Zotti
A lifelong interest in astronomy developed into interest for historical astronomy and the role of astronomy in culture. After "doing something reasonable", diploma and PhD studies in computer sciences, and a bit of astronomy, I am now combining skills of computer sciences and astronomy to develop new tools for a field best described as Advanced Virtual Archaeoastronomy, and finally learned that there is really a proper name for my scientific interest: Cultural Astronomy. All epochs. Global.
Supervisors: Werner Purgathofer and Maria G. Firneis
Supervisors: Werner Purgathofer and Maria G. Firneis
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‘STONEHENGE. A Hidden Landscape.’ in the MAMUZ museum for prehistory in Mistelbach, Lower Austria, LBI ArchPro presents recent research results from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project. A central element of the exhibition which extends over two floors connected with open staircases is an assembly of original-sized replica of several stones of the central trilithon horseshoe which is seen from both floors. In the upper floor, visitors are at eye level with the lintels,
and on a huge curved projection screen which extends along the long wall of the hall they can experience the view out over the Sarsen circle into the surrounding landscape. This paper describes the planning and creation of this part of the exhibition, and some first impressions after opening.
‘STONEHENGE. A Hidden Landscape.’ in the MAMUZ museum for prehistory in Mistelbach, Lower Austria, LBI ArchPro presents recent research results from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project. A central element of the exhibition which extends over two floors connected with open staircases is an assembly of original-sized replica of several stones of the central trilithon horseshoe which is seen from both floors. In the upper floor, visitors are at eye level with the lintels,
and on a huge curved projection screen which extends along the long wall of the hall they can experience the view out over the Sarsen circle into the surrounding landscape. This paper describes the planning and creation of this part of the exhibition, and some first impressions after opening.
ebenfalls das typische Instrument der Astronomen war. Dieser Beitrag stellt Geometrie und Verwendung anhand selbstentwickelter Graphiken und lasergeschnittener Holzinstrumente vor.
In this time we (LBI ArchPro and TU Wien) have added significant capabilities for applications in Cultural Astronomy to the program, in particular a way to allow virtual 3D exploration of architecture from any period. The major part of this chapter describes our recent accomplishments for allowing its use in a multi-screen installation running both completely automated and manually controlled setups in an exhibition about Stonehenge. During the development time, also the accuracy of astronomical simulation has been greatly improved. The final part of this chapter (authored by B. Frischer) presents the latest application examples, in particular of these 3D capabilities, for Cultural Astronomy research in the Roman world.