[Paper] A Digital Archiving for Large 3D Woven Cultural Artifacts Exhibition

Abstract

We propose a digital archiving method for large 3D woven cultural artifacts exhibition. In Gion Festival, the boat-shaped Fune-hoko float is especially noteworthy for its decorative woven cultural artifacts. The decorations used for the floats include embroidery of various materials-silk, gold thread, cotton, glass, felt-and their texture is quite complex. Cotton is stuffed into the embroidery which makes the fabric stand out in marked 3D relief pattern with complex reflection properties. Moreover, because the 3D woven cultural artifacts are so large, approximately 1 m×3 m, the measurements must be done in sections to get an accurate reading. To archive the large 3D woven artifacts efficiently, we developed a new measurement system in order to simplify the measurement and modeling, and developed a new system for digitally displaying multisensory full-scale, real-time, and interactive representations. This paper describes how to digitally archive the large 3D woven cultural artifacts.