A Great Adventure Begins
Well, the great adventure has begun – after a long and frustrating series of delayed and rescheduled flights from Perth W.A. to Queenstown N.Z. (thanks Qantas), with a huge amount of gear – I’ve...
Category: Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage
SplatPrep Studio: 360° Video/Panorama to Multi-View Training Data WIP
SplatPrep Studio addresses a persistent challenge in 3D reconstruction workflows: efficiently generating comprehensive multi-view datasets. The application transforms 360°/180º equirectangular mono or stereo video or high-resolution equirectangular panoramas into perspective camera views suitable for...
Digitally Reconstructing Mawson’s Huts, Antarctica.
With the ongoing improvement in AI and machine learning models, as well as adaptive, programmable workflows in environments like Python/Jupyter, ComfyUI, Blender and Unreal Engine, it is a productive time to look at new...
Envisioning Antarctica : Gaussian-splatting Experiments
This page will host my experiments with Gaussian-splatting pipelines. I finally found some time to get round to setting up the environment – pretty straight-forward stuff – and a lot of emergent integrations that...
VMI Blog IX: Weather & Penguins!
A quick demo on work-in-progress on VMI, demonstrating progress on weather simulations and few other features. I’m using the fantastic UDS rather than the inbuilt UE volumetrics and particle systems, as this provides an...
VMI Blog VIII: Voices in the Digital Twin
A night-time flight around Macquarie Island, reflecting both technical progress, technical issues, and a composite narrative of scientists who have worked there – an initial experiment in Digital Twin story-telling.Plus: demonstration of 3rd-person VR...
Virtual South Georgia
What started off as a little zero-budget technical experiment in my spare time inadvertently turned into a bit of an epic. Anyway, I started getting my head around some technical things I wanted to...
Visions of Australia: VMI
Synopsis Virtual Macquarie Island (VMI 1.0), is a prototype digital exhibit created in collaboration with TMAG and the Australian Antarctic Program. It is currently on exhibit at TMAG’s Islands to Ice Antarctica gallery. VMI...
Ghosts of Antarctica
Ghosts of Antarctica 2021UHD 4k , Stereo. Duration: 8:10 Synopsis Ghosts of Antarctica is a reflective short film that brings new life and emotion to the faces of Australian Antarctic scientists and explorers of...
Of Ancient Design
An undiscovered island. An ancient wreck. It is July 1810. The brig Perseverance is upon the high seas, the wild Southern Ocean. Ship’s Captain Frederick Hasselborough is searching for new sealing grounds, with a...
Blizzard Redux
Blizzard Redux is a renewal of a work I made in 2007, exploring the stereoscopic photographic record of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. It’s now on permanent exhibit at TMAG in beautiful full-colour polarised...
Colourising Stereoscopic Glass Plates with Deep Learning
13 years ago, in 2006, I was commissioned to produce a stereoscopic movie by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) for their then-new ‘Islands to Ice‘ Antarctic exhibition, based upon stereoscopic glass plates...
AAE: Digital Ghosts Project
The AAE Digital Ghosts project develops and implements novel techniques in Deep Learning (DL) in application to Antarctic Cultural Heritage. Recent developments in DL facilitate the automated colourisation and extraction (or recreation) of three-dimensional data...
Mawson’s Huts VR Project
360º Stereoscopic Views of Mawson’s Huts (photogrammetric + 3D model reconstructions). Preview Video: Note: currently VR view mode on iOS/Android may not work, due to gyro access and software issues. Desktop viewing functions as...
Antarctic 360º Video, VR, Panoramas and Photogrammetry
With recent developments in 360º video and VR, it is now possible for me to revisit a variety of material I’ve accumulated over the last 20 years of Antarctic-related visualisation research: these range from...
Conversations about Paintings
My father is a painter – a landscape painter – and he has done this for most of his life (and all my life) – and, naturally, he’s had a strong impact upon the...
VR: AVIE: Antarctica
I created a series of stereoscopic (3d) fully immersive cylindrical panoramas at Cape Denison, Antarctica – in and around Mawson’s Huts in 2008. The AVIE (Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment) was developed by the iCinema...
Bodies in Time: A Sociosemiotics of Funerary Monuments and Sculpture
This is the author resource for my PhD thesis (1994): ‘Bodies in Time: A Sociosemiotics of Funerary Monuments and Sculpture’. The full PDF is available at https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50582/ or http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27096.21766 Degree Doctor of Philosophy, School...
Home of the Blizzard
Updated version 2019 here. Note: Anaglyphic stereo requires red-blue 3D glasses to view. NB. For the simple reason that red=right is a good mnemonic, I authored this in anaglyphic with red on the right,...