The use of technology as a means of production to represent historical facts and events is simply fascinating. Anyone who needs to teach or show historical facts and there are only 10-15 years ago only had pictures to show the objects as they were, now offers powerful 3D tools like Blender and free to represent any type of scene or object. See the great example of the Museum of Computing, University of Castilla-La Mancha. They created an interactive museum that shows the evolution of computing in an interactive manner, using 3D models of computers and video games developed throughout history.
What software did they use? Blender 3d!
Even with the virtual museum, several models of computer and videogame, are exhibited in the museum so visitors can check how many were for older computers. What virtualization then?
The virtual museum is said as it provides several interactive kiosks where visitors can literally put the computer models in the palm of the hand using an image recognition software and a special plaque. On page indicated at the beginning of this article, there is a video demonstration of these kiosks that shows very well how it works.
Now you know the best part? Staff who organized the museum, has released for download under the creative commons license, all 3d models used for interactive software, the file format of Blender 3D. Yes, to access the website of the museum you are confronted with all the computer files for download. Of course this is not a complete library of models, but for someone who needs 3D computer models for similar projects, the action is fantastic!
As everything was being used for interactive applications that use 3D real-time models are available with fewer polygons, with much of the detailing being done by textures that accompany all files of 3D models
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