Digital heritage documentation and visualization
Having mastered a wide scope of digital imaging techniques we’re proud to offer a comprehensive heritage documentation and visualization services range.
Techniques & services overview
Film shots and video content may not only be used for documentation purposes but also for PR activities and communicating and making the heritage documentation projects available to public.
A documentary highlighting the challenging aspect of a project or timelapse film shots of Easter Islands statues? Regardless of the project requirements teaming up with LookyCreative you may be sure of high aesthetic level of the production.
Thanks to a few years of experience in pioneering the motion-controlled timelapse cinematography, we’re able to execute sophisticated, HDR, motion-controlled timelapse and stop-motion shots setting a challenge and extending the standard set of digital documentation tools.
The motion-controlled timelapse works of LookyCreative were presented and got a great reception on such heritage documentation conferences as DigiDoc 2011 held in Glasgow or SPAR Europe 2011.
Timelapse and stop-motion cinematography may either enrich the film work or be used as a separate medium for documenting cultural and natural heritage sites, the architecture or smaller objects such as architecture details, sculptures or figures in unpreceded detail and quality.
Combining the real objects photography with interactivity giving chance to rotate and zoom-in the object is one of simple, but still very powerful techniques of digital heritage documentation.
Thanks to making use of robotized turntables and modern DSLR cameras we are able to deliver at relatively low costs the images which are almost instantly ready to be archived or deployed online.
We’ll recommend the specialized photography techniques depending on the project requirements and execute the documentation process.
You probably already have seen panoramic photographs. Imagine, however, that you are able to select any fragment of the photograph and take a closer look. And another even closer look. Zooming in and getting more and more details as you look closer is possible thanks to gigapanoramic imaging. Now make use of it to document the details of Himalayan landscape or the finest textures and details of a brush stroke on Van Gogh’s painting.
Thanks to making use of robotized panoramic heads and our proficiency in digital image processing techniques we’re able to shoot, post produce and deliver online images at incredible detail level, which are also fast to load in a browser.
The Hubble telescope is not necessarily the best scientific tool, but it’s thanks to all these photographs pleasing millions of people around the world, the Americans can justify such massive outlays on the ‘real’ science.
When it comes to heritage documentation and preservation projects, the panoramic imaging and virtual tours are probably the most instant-result-oriented technique which delivers a great value at small part of the budget.
Contemplating the masterpiece of photography or a painting we’re forced to see the object through the eyes of a person that created it and with the particularly selected lighting conditions. A bless and a curse at the same time.
However, when it comes to documenting the reliefs or other highly embossed surfaces the ability to interactively relight the surface may be a key factor allowing to see what could be missed otherwise. It is not a magic. It’s polynomial texture mapping.
LookyCreative is one of the first teams in the world pioneering the use of laser scanning results in combination with a film medium. Thanks to our partners, such as EKG Baukultur, we’re able to execute complex laser scanning projects not only for the documentation purposes, but also for delivering high aesthetic quality scan-based visualizations.
The requirements of making the results of a documentation project available to the public in an attractive way create a need that the visually pleasing results were generated. Scanning and photogrammetry results make a convenient basis for 3D visualization and reconstruction of the heritage objects and sites, but the art and the craft must meet to deliver imagery that matters and stories that are remembered.