News

21st October 2008: The EPICS team has completed and presented a sampler educational CD to the research director, Tom Trnsky at the Auckland Museum. The CD was developed in a flash interface with the processed artefact models (U3D format) embedded in pdf documents within the CD. The team has received an enthusiastic response from the Museum and is currently working towards developing further links and establishing a direction for the project next year.

7th July 2008: The EPICS programme at the Faculty of Engineering was featured in the recently published University of Auckland Annual Report. Such recognition is further proof of the growing influence of this programme both within the university as well as in the community. The full article can be found here.

Over the three week long semester break, the group will be post-processing the 7 polynesian tools scanned previously and continue working on the educational CD.

19th June 2008: The group has just scanned 7 polynesian stone tools using the MVT scanner. These stone adze and clubs were kindly made available by Dr Oliver Stead from the Auckland Museum. The scanned data will be post-processed over the next 2 months to create solid 3D models that will be made available on this website.

In addition, the Wahaika club model has been updated. It now features photo-realistic surface colour texture. Photographs taken of the club were mapped onto the 3D model using FluxStudio, a free X3D model manipulation software. Click here to view the Wahaika model.

31st May 2008: And we're back with an exciting new team of engineering students!

The main goal this year is to develop an education software, utilizing 3D models of artefacts for the Auckland Museum's Educations section. While consultation with the Museum continues, we've been busy designing concepts for the software, and improving our digitisation methodology.

Check out the EPICS Mid-Year Progress Report for details.