[ Enter the Past ] Vienna - Austria, 8-12 April 2003
 
 
 

W. Knoll1, W. Zöller2
2CAD Service, Stuttgart
1Lehrstuhl für Darstellen und Gestalten an der Universität Stuttgart, Fakultät für Architektur

 
Visualizations
A Critical Survey
 

Visualizations arouse curiosity. A visualization of a view as it was in former times compared to the same view as it is [existing] today is interesting even for those medias, who usually would not cover such a theme. Ideally, people start looking for specialised literature on that theme.

Visualizations are suggestive, also: spectators think a prospect must have looked exactly as depicted. To guard against any such error, different alternatives should be presented.

The presentation of variants possible may show in few pictures what is known for sure and what is merely assumed. The dispute on Troy and its lower town would not have come up, if variants would have been on view: a dense population or not, large houses or small ones, ...

The user of visualizations uses state of the art technology, but - quite often - does not take all the advantage thereof: it nowadays is possible, to get from a beautiful view to the details on one click, on another to specialized literature.

Today, that is easily done with quite normal computers and mostly conventional programs. Moving freely and in real time in virtual worlds, too. A new and own program development is a waste of money (and time).

Visualizations are inexpensive and - not only for that reason - enticing

[gor]11-03-2003