#37 3D Visualization for the Humanities

Alex Razoumov

What would you like to do with your data in 3D? 3D visualization has been used in traditional scientific computing domains for the past several decades to visualize results of multidimensional numerical simulations. In humanities 3D visualizations have been mostly restricted to specialized areas such as game engines, architectural renderings, virtual environments, photogrammetric processing, and visualization of point cloud data — workflows that tend to use very specific tools. In this full-day course we will approach 3D visualization from a more general perspective, treating it as an extension of interactive 2D plotting into the third dimension. In the first 80% of the workshop we will teach you how to use 3D general-purpose scientific visualization tools for interactive 3D analysis of humanities data, walking through a series of simple hands-on problems designed specifically for this course. In the remaining 20% we will show you how to put these (and more general polygon-based) visualizations on the web, using state-of-the-start in-browser visualization techniques. No prior visualization experience is needed.

Duration: 4-6 hours

Proposed schedule: Tuesday June 13th, morning session 9am to noon (Pacific Time), afternoon session 1pm to approximately 3pm (Pacific Time)

Auditor Option: Available

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