The Reconstruction of the Past: the Application of New Techniques for Visualization and Research in Architectural History

This paper focuses on the visualization of historical architecture. The application of new Computer-Aided- Architectural-Design techniques for visualization on micro computers provides a technique for reconstructing and analyzing architectural objects from the past. The pilot project describes a case study in which the historical transformation of a town will be analyzed by using three- dimensional CAD models in combination with bitmap textures. The transformation of the historic town will be visualized in a space-time computer model in which bitmap textures enable us to display complex and relatively large architectural objects in detail. This three-dimensional descriptive model allows us to survey and analyze the history of architecture in its reconstructed context. It also provides a medium for researching the dynamics of urban management, since new combinations and arrangements with the individual architectural objects can be created. In this way, a new synthesis of the graphic material can reveal typologies and the architectural ordering system of a town

KB zet kranten Regio Den Haag op microfilm

Werd een aantal kranten vanwege de slechte kwaliteit van het papier (brokkelen en scheuren) niet meer aan bezoekers ter inzage gegeven, of ontdekten bezoekers dat juist de aflevering ontbrak waarin ze waren geïnteresseerd, de landelijke en regionale dagbladen uit de regio Den Haag zijn nu zo compleet mogelijk op microfilm beschikbaar. Deze compleetheid is mogelijk geworden door kranten uit verschillende instellingen in elkaar te schuiven en vervolgens te verfilmen

The changing image of the city : a study of the transformation of the townscape using computer-aided architectural design and visualization techniques : a case study: Heusden

The image and structure of a town are constantly subject to a dynamic process of change and continuity. Visual material, such as photographs, historical maps, town plans, drawings and prints, show us the impact of these changes on the image of a town. The main point of departure of this study stems from the question of how this process of change and continuity is visually detectable in a town or city. The fact that the ideas about the appearance of a city (gradually) change, can be read from the often subtle changes in the townscape. Though in many cases we have a general knowledge of the choices made in urban management, the most difficult problem is to detect the underlying decisions. This raises the question to what extent these changes and also the continuities are the result of deliberate choices in urban management and to what extent they are autonomous developments in the townscape resistant to interventions. Using different kinds of visual information as a basis, computer visualization techniques are used in the present study to examine some cartographic maps and to reconstruct the urban development in the twentieth century of the town of Heusden three-dimensionally in significant phases. The resulting visualization provides us with a tool for a better understanding of the dynamics of urban transformation processes, typologies and morphological changes and continuities

The Changing Image of the City

The image and structure of a town are constantly subject to a dynamic process of change and continuity. Visual material, such as photographs, historical maps, town plans, drawings and prints, show us the impact of these changes on the image of a town. The main point of departure of this study stems from the question of how this process of change and continuity is visually detectable in a town or city. The fact that the ideas about the appearance of a city (gradually) change, can be read from the often subtle changes in the townscape. Though in many cases we have a general knowledge of the choices made in urban management, the most difficult problem is to detect the underlying decisions. This raises the question to what extent these changes and also the continuities are the result of deliberate choices in urban management and to what extent they are autonomous developments in the townscape resistant to interventions. Using different kinds of visual information as a basis, computer visualization techniques are used in the present study to examine some cartographic maps and to reconstruct the urban development in the twentieth century of the town of Heusden three-dimensionally in significant phases. The resulting visualization provides us with a tool for a better understanding of the dynamics of urban transformation processes, typologies and morphological changes and continuities

Computer Visualisation as a Tool in Architectural Historical Research

The historical city has been represented over time using various ways of drawing, modelling and simulation. Using different kinds of visual information as a basis, computer visualisation techniques are used in this presentation to reconstruct the urban development in the twentieth century of the town of Heusden and other towns. The resulting visualisation provides us with a tool for a better understanding of the dynamics of urban transformation processes, typologies and morphological changes. Though for most of these rather specific research questions the computer images proved adequate and useful, some morphological studies can well be carried out using more traditional techniques.

Torens die reiken tot in de hemel…: Afbeeldingen uit Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

De Koninklijke Bibliotheek heeft zomer 2001 een website met middeleeuwse verluchte handschriften uit haar collectie op het internet beschikbaar gesteld waarin alle afbeeldingen ook inhoudelijk zijn beschreven. Recentelijk is daar de collectie verluchte handschriften uit het Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum aan toegevoegd. Het unieke is dat er nu heel gericht in gezocht kan worden en afbeeldingen met elkaar kunnen worden vergeleken. Patricia Alkhoven licht het project toe

CLARIAH - Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities

In the Common Lab for Research in the Arts and Humanities (CLARIAH) we aim to design, construct, and exploit a facility for eHumanities research. This virtual 'Common Lab' will provide a sustainable eHumanities research environment, which will provide researchers and research groups with integrated access to unprecedented collections of seamlessly interoperating digital research resources and innovative tools to process them in virtual workspaces, thus enabling Data Intensive Science in the humanities

CLARIAH - Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities

In the Common Lab for Research in the Arts and Humanities (CLARIAH) we aim to design, construct, and exploit a facility for eHumanities research. This virtual 'Common Lab' will provide a sustainable eHumanities research environment, which will provide researchers and research groups with integrated access to unprecedented collections of seamlessly interoperating digital research resources and innovative tools to process them in virtual workspaces, thus enabling Data Intensive Science in the humanities