Managing 3D: our next problem

ABSTRACT

Museums in the world contain billions of objects (the Smithsonian alone has some 250 million things). Three-dimensional scanning is now cheap, and we can expect to see a flood of scanned solid objects join the even more numerous images and videos that we now have. Although we haven't yet solved the problems of managing two- dimensional scanned images, we're about to face the more complex problem of 3-D objects.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
      I.3.3 Picture/Image Generation
          Subjects: Digitizing and scanning

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems

General Terms:
Human Factors

Keywords:
3D, scanning