Tangible Heritage: Production of Astrolabes on a Laser Engraver

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Date (from): 3.9.2007
• Date (to): 7.9.2007
• Editor: David B. Arnold and Andrej Ferko
• ISSN: 1017-4656
• Lecturer: Georg Zotti
• Location: Prague
• Organization: Eurographics
• Publisher: Eurographics
• Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Astronomy, Astrolabe, Procedural Modelling

@inproceedings\{zotti-2007-eg,
  title =      "Tangible Heritage: Production of Astrolabes on a Laser
               Engraver",
  author =     "Georg Zotti",
  year =       "2007",
  abstract =   "The astrolabe, an analog computing device, used to be the
               iconic   instrument of astronomers during the Middle Ages.
               It allowed a   multitude of operations of practical
               astronomy which were otherwise   cumbersome to perform in an
               epoch when mathematics had apparently   almost been
               forgotten. Usually made from wood or sheet metal, a   few
               hundred instruments, mostly from brass, survived until today
               and   are valuable    museum showpieces. This paper explains
               a procedural modelling   approach for the construction of
               the classical kinds of astrolabes,   which allows a wide
               variety of applications from plain explanatory  
               illustrations to 3D models, and even the production of
               working   physical astrolabes usable for public or classroom
               demonstrations.",
  pages =      "41--48 (colorplate:p60)",
  month =      sep,
  organization = "Eurographics",
  booktitle =  "EG2007 Cultural Heritage Papers",
  editor =     "David B. Arnold and Andrej Ferko",
  issn =       "1017-4656",
  publisher =  "Eurographics",
  location =   "Prague",
  keywords =   "Cultural Heritage, Astronomy, Astrolabe, Procedural
               Modelling",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2007/zotti-2007-eg/",
}