Sensuous and Reflexive GIS
Exploring Visualisation and VRML

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Part One: The GIS Context

• 1.1 GIS and Archaeological Thought: an introduction
  • 1.1.1 Narrowing the Scope: GIS as an Archaeological Research Tool
  • 1.1.2 Structure of the Paper
• 1.2 Theory and GIS
  • 1.2.1 Space and time
  • 1.2.2 Pointillism
  • 1.2.3 Determinism
• 1.3 Archaeological GIS - the way forward?
  • 1.3.1 Current Directions
  • 1.3.2 Viewshed-based Techniques
• 1.4 Visualism and Perception, or the persistence of vision
  • 1.4.1 The Tisza re-visited
• 1.5 GIS and Theory: some conclusions:

• Part Two: The Rôle of VRML
• 2.1 Virtual Reality: Imitation or Simulation?
  • 2.1.1 Public Perception of Virtual Reality
  • 2.1.2 The Development of Virtual Reality
  • 2.1 3 A Re-evaluation of Virtual Reality
• 2.2 VRML and the Internet
  • 2.2.1 Virtual Reality on the PC
  • 2.2.2 The Adoption of VRML
  • 2.2.3 VRML as an Interface to the Internet
  • 2.2.4 The Emergence of a Standard VRML
• 2.3 VRML - A definition
• 2.4 An Introduction to VRML
  • 2.4.1 The VRML document - An anatomy Lesson
  • 2.4.2 A very simple example of a VRML file
  • 2.4.3 Co-ordinate Systems
  • 2.4.4 The Need for Modelling Programs
• 2.5 Case Studies
  • 2.5.1 Case Study one: Peel Gap
  • 2.5.2 Case Study two: Hepburn bastle
  • 2.5.3 Case Study three: A Neolithic bowl
• 2.6 Conclusions

• Part Three: Future Developments
• 3.1 VRML 2 and Hardware Developments
  • 3.1.1 Enhanced Static Worlds
  • 3.1.2 Interaction and Animation
  • 3.1.3 Prototyping
• 3.2 Hardware Innovations
• 3.3 Afterword: Beyond VRML 2.0

• Notes on software used
• Bibliography

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