Ritsumeikan Art Research Center (ARC) has been promoting its own research on arts in a unique way combining cultural science and scientific technology, especially in the field of traditional performing arts disappearing with time or intangible culture native to Kyoto. Research Center consists of air-conditioned library and exhibition room, a studio where different kinds of high-tech media are available, a workshop for digital archive processing, and a multipurpose room with hinoki floor (for noh, kyogen, or kyo-mai dance) where every subtle movement of the performer can be recorded/analyzed through multangular video tape recording and motion - capturing system devices. These facilities also make it possible to record, store, search, reproduce and even transmit the materials, ranging from classical or up-to-date, at a sitting. ARC has been successful in reproducing some original images onto the screen and kept the know - how of it. As the most advanced research institution on Japanese traditional performing arts, ARC is on its way developing a new method for image processing in bulk.
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