The SHAPE Lab @ Brown University



Petra : The Great Temple Excavation Order the book!		Original Proposal from 1999 (a tour)
Calendar of events		Talks Publications & Softwares
SHAPE Seminar Series & Local Events		SHAPE Research Projects
Position ~~available~~		In the news

Principal Research Collaborators @ Brown

Principal Research Collaborators @ NYU

TERZOPOULOS, Demetri

Alumni

Departments/Groups involved @ Brown & Principal Researchers/Associates

Applied Mathematics Division :
- Prof. David Mumford
Center for Old World Archaeology and Art :
- Dr. Jill Baker
- Prof. Martha Joukowsky
- Dr. Eileen Vote
Lab. for Engineering human/Machine Systems @ Engineering Division
- Prof. David Cooper
- Dr. Kongbin Kang
- Prof. Ben Kimia
- Dr. Frederic F. Leymarie
- Jasper Speicher
- Dr. Andrew R. Willis
Visual Arts Dept.:
- Prof. Richard Fishman
- Jasper Speicher

Departments/Groups involved @ NYU & Principal Researchers/Associates

Media Research Lab.:
- Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos
- Wei Shao

Other groups at Brown involved

CAVE : Virtual Reality environment (multidisciplinary research group)
Graphics Lab. @ Computer Science Department :
- Graphics node for SHAPE Lab. projects
- Prof. David Laidlaw
- Dr. Eileen Vote
- Daniel Acevedo Feliz
VenLab in Cognitive Sciences: the Virtual Environment Navigation Lab. (Prof. Mike Tarr)

External Collaborators

Prof. AKASHEH, Talal S. @ Hashemite University, Jordan, Dean of Research & Graduate Studies.
Prof. ERCIL, Aytul @ Comp. Vision & Pattern Analysis Lab., Sabanci Universitesi, Turkey.
Dr. FORTE, Maurizio @ CNR, Roma, Italy.
Prof. GIBLIN, Peter @ Maths Dept., Liverpool University, UK.
Dr. GRUBER, Michael @ Vexcel Imaging, Graz, Austria.
Prof. NICCOLUCI, Franco @ University of Florence, Italy.
Dr. TAREL, Jean-Philippe @ INRIA, France.

Visitors/Researchers :

Prof. GIBLIN, Peter @ Liverpool (Spring of 1999, 2000, 2001, Summer of 2002, 2003)
Diane Gilles, Dept. of Archaeology, Sorbonne, France (August 2001 until May 2002)
Fabienne Maile, Dept. of Archaeology, Sorbonne, France (August 2001 until May 2002)
Xavier Orriols, CVC @ Barcelona, Spain (Summer of 2000 and 2001)
Dr. TAREL, Jean-Philippe @ INRIA, France (June 2000, February 2002)

In the News

Software release: WallDrawer: an easy alternative to on-site wall drawing for archaeology -- this software aims at putting together the tools needed to produce scaled, rectified, drawing-like pictures from digital photographs in archaeological excavations. Available as an open source software for Windows, Unix and Mac OS; April 2004, hosted by SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/walldrawer/
Column in the 2003 May/June issue of Higher Learning, "Projects: The SHAPE Lab."
Article in the George Street Journal, "Scientists and artists partner to create virtual Petra," February 28, 2003.
Call For Papers: ACVA'03: Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology. (jointly organized by the SHAPE Lab. and the Computer Vision Lab. @ ETH Zurich).
New NSF/ITR grant (Oct. 2002) for the second phase of the SHAPE Lab. (2002-2006)
Best Case Study Award at IEEE Visualization 2001, Oct. 2001.
Feature article in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Nov./Dec. 2000, Special issue on Virtual Reality, in "van Dam's Group Reports on Progress in Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization", pp.28-29.
Article in the Brown Daily Herald on Wednesday October 27, 1999.
News bureau at Brown , October 7, 1999 - also appeared in the weekly George Street Journal of Oct. 15-21, 1999.

Snapshots

Work of the team of Brown archaeologists lead by **Martha S. Joukowsky** at the site of the Great Temple in Petra, Jordan.

Before 1993	After nearly 10 years of work, in the summer of 2002.


A view at the preliminary 3D reconstruction (temple proper).	Snapshot from inside.
by E. Vote, N. Raford. & A. Walsky - June 2000.



Reconstructions by Eileen Vote, 2001.

Trench modeling by Eileen Vote, 2002. Three-dimensional models of the vast majority (70+) of trenches from the Petra Great Temple excavation have been produced with help from six undergraduates from Brown University. Each model is an exact replica of excavation trenches from the excavation site in Jordan. A trench is essentially a three-dimensional recording of the sediment and artifacts that are removed during the excavation process.

Movies / Illustrations :

Archave (Eileen Vote's PhD, 2001).
Site documentation by Jennifer Dillon (2003).

Internal Links (only for SHAPE members/associates; password will be required)

Authorized members only: Click here.
Digital-Archaeology@ListServ.Brown

Funding / Acknowledgements

Major funding for this project comes from:

NSF/ ITR Grant # 0205477, "3D Free Form Models for the Representation, Manipulation, and Recovery of Shape, with Applications to Archaeology and Virtual Sculpting" (2002-2006).
NSF / KDI Grant #BCS-9980091, "3D Free-Form Models for Geometric Recovery and Applications to Archaeology" (1999 - 2002).

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Webmasters:

Andrew R. Willis (Summer of 2004 - ...)
Frederic F. Leymarie (from its conception in 1998 until the Summer of 2004)

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Last Updated: June 2004
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