📦 The Store Room, Spatial Heritage Review #1

A little extra, because so much happened this month.

Dec 04, 2023

Like many museums, there was just too much to put on display this month. Here's a all the great stuff from the stores! You can read the main review here.

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The ancient Jordanian city of Petra in 3D by CyArk.

USA. Cyark have been busy as usual, adding more data to the openheritage3d.org repository, working on a neat exhibition for the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, publishing an interactive tour of North America’s largest cliff dwelling on their Tapestry platform (3D powered by Sketchfab), and publishing a very nice scan of the monastery from the ancient Jordanian city of Petra (3D powered by Nira).

Via Cyark.

An example project with a model, photos, and text signage in UEFN — Screenshot of sample project using the UEFN Virtual Exhibit Learning Kit by Cleverlike Studios.

Online. Some more Fortnite related content, if you’re interested in creating your own virtual exhibit with custom 3D and interactions to release to players, Cleverlike Studios has produced this step by step guide on how to do just that using Epic’s Unreal Editor for Fortnite.

Brasil. Students and professors from Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Universidade de São Paulo propose a debate on the coloniality embedded in institutions and public collections through a collection of digitised monuments presented via demonumenta. 3D powered by Sketchfab.

Australia. The University of Melbourne is using the pedestal3d.com to host their online collection of 3D data. The 3D viewer is powered by three.js and includes some neat features like level of detail (LOD) selection, material and lighting settings, annotation authoring, and more.