Color the Temple of Dendur - Research at the MET MediaLab
Area: Interactive Projection Mapping & Illustration
Company: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Year: Fall 2013
Work in conjunction with the Department of Egyptian Art to explore
Color the Temple of Dendur - Research at the MET MediaLab
Area: Interactive Projection Mapping & Illustration
Company: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Year: Fall 2013
Work in conjunction with the Department of Egyptian Art to explore the possibilities around color projection and projection mapping onto the Temple of Dendur. We illustrated and colored digitally one of the temple's scenes to project onto the temple in order to simulate the original colors it might have had. Then we developed a storytelling/educational tool for presenting the scene to an audience: a mobile interface to control what is to be displayed: highlight different figures, animations and zoom in the glyphs. We worked under guidance of Research Fellow Erin Peters and Don Undeen, the MET MediaLab director. The work has been used in Erin's pr