_Travel 3 D in the monastery of Santa Clara a-Velha

Some 10 years after a few attempts, the three-dimensional design of the monastery of Santa Clara-old has finally "public visibility" as said by Luis Almeida tvi24.pt. Developed by the Computer Graphics Center at the University of Minho in collaboration with IGESPAR the video you want to bring visitors to the museum center and the monastery itself back in time, showing the temporal evolution of the monument.

The charge of developing projects for the Cultural Heritage Center of Computer Graphics, Luis Almeida, told tvi24.pt, p

explaining that after several years of trying this project, we had now, after all the conditions necessary to develop is a three-dimensional display, recreating the virtual space of the monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha. This video allows visitors to the museum center and the monastery itself, open to the

public recently, realize the history around the monument, including the various interventions of archeology. Over about 13 minutes, is presented to the visitor the most important thing happened to the monastery of Santa Clara-a-old during his six centuries of history.

According to Luís Almeida, this video shows the 'history linked to the floods and the vagaries of the Mondego River, "is visible even to those who could not follow the events. In addition to public awareness, this project, using animations and elements of high visual realism is also intended to achieve a playful and educational, as well as develop new applications in this field, allowing the "visualization of the ruin and its virtual reconstruction, in addition to realistic simulations of monastic life and the daily life of Poor Clares, "said Luis Almeida.

This project took about a year to be realized, due to the difficulties that any project of this scale involves, involving a virtual reconstruction of a ruin. It was made with 'ebb and flow' as told to Luis Almeida tvi24.pt, since it was not always easy to fit the archaeological studies to animated images. Using the techniques and technologies of computer graphics and virtual reality in particular, can now travel back in time at the monastic and can view it from its foundation up to the state it is in the early 90's.