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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

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Construction engineering

Publication Details

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol.XLII-2/W5, 2017 26 International CIPA Symposium

Abstract

In this paper the recording and design for a Virtual Reality Immersive Model of Armagh Observatory is presented, which will replicate the historic buildings and landscape with distant meridian markers and position of its principal historic instruments within a model of the night sky showing the position of bright stars. The virtual reality model can be used for educational purposes allowing the instruments within the historic building model to be manipulated within 3D space to demonstrate how the position measurements of stars were made in the 18th century. A description is given of current student and researchers activities concerning on-site recording and surveying and the virtual modelling of the buildings and landscape. This is followed by a design for a Virtual Reality Immersive Model of Armagh Observatory use game engine and virtual learning platforms and concepts.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W5-531-2017


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