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Title
Taking a virtual dive into the Ice Age
Creator
Rissolo, Dominique
Contributor
Rissolo, Emilio
Date Created and/or Issued
2022-05-04
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Art of Science
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" or any license applied to this work requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Rissolo, Dominique; Rissolo, Emilio
Description
Caption: A researcher takes a ‘virtual dive’ into a cache of Ice Age bones in 3D Participant category: Researcher Department: Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI) Deep below the jungles of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is a flooded cave containing the bones of extinct megafauna and the skeletal remains of one of the earliest humans yet discovered in the Americas. It is remarkable place where many archaeologists and paleontologist may never venture. Working with technical cave divers, Qualcomm Institute researchers and their Mexican colleagues have led a major digital documentation effort -- creating a digital twin of the site that can be explored and studied at full scale and in 3D. The WAVE (or Wide-Angle Virtual Environment) at UC San Diego enables researchers to immerse themselves in data collected from such remote and inaccessible worlds.
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Rissolo, Dominique; Rissolo, Emilio (2022). Taking a virtual dive into the Ice Age. In Art of Science. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0ZC831N
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb8951933q
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Paleontology
Glacial epoch
Art and science
Three-dimensional display systems
Underwater archaeology
Art of Science Contest - 2022

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