Research
Virtual Vaudeville (Performance Simulation
System)
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The Live Performance Simulation
System will use computer gaming and motion capture technologies
to recreate the experience of attending a live theatrical performances
from the past. The goal is to simulate the sensation of being
surrounded by human activity on stage, in the audience, and
backstage. Viewers will enter the virtual theatre and watch
the performance from any position in the audience, and will
even be able to interact with the animated spectators around
them.
A team of researchers from around the country including computer
scientists, 3-D modelers, theatre practitioners, and theatre
and music historians are currently at work producing the first
prototype: Virtual Vaudeville, a simulation of American vaudeville
theatre in the late nineteenth century. This three-year project
is funded by the National Science Foundation (IIS-0121764),
with supplemental funding from the University of Georgia Research
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Building History
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Assisted with coordination and production
of digital projects -- most recent: Building History
website for University Archives.
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Assisted with DLC Digital Project
Inventory
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League of Nations: Statistical
and Disarmament Documents Between World War I and World
War II, countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South
America attempted to work together as the
League of Nations. Russia and the United States refused to
join, and the League eventually dissolved.
To promote international peace and security, the League reduced
national armaments and prevented the
manufacture of implements of war. This site contains the digitized
files of 250 League publications, most
of which document of the Leagueís work in international
disarmament. The original publications are part
of a comprehensive collection of League of Nations materials
held in Northwestern University Library's
Government Publications and Maps Department.
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The Paris
Codex is a digitally reproduced
version of an ancient Maya book. Pre-Columbian Maya texts are
called codices
or screen-folded manuscripts. The Maya kept whole libraries
of books containing information about their history, beliefs,
astronomy, and calendrics. There are 22 pages in the codex
containing hieroglyphics that scholars believe will add to our
knowledge of the pre-Columbian civilization. The original is
held
by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France, and this
digital facsimile was created by Digital Media Services in the
Marjorie I.
Mitchell Multimedia Center using images taken from The Codex
Pérez; An Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphic Book by Theodore
A.
Williard. This presentation of the Maya Codex is available through
help from the Northwestern University Anthropology department
and Northwestern University Library. |
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