Tangible Heritage: Production of Astrolabes on a Laser Engraver
| dc.contributor.author | Zotti, G. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-21T13:21:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-02-21T13:21:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The astrolabe, an analog computing device, used to be the iconic instrument of astronomers during the Middle Ages. It allowed a multitude of operations of practical astronomy which were otherwise cumbersome to perform in an epoch when mathematics had apparently almost been forgotten. Usually made from wood or sheet metal, a few hundred instruments, mostly from brass, survived until today and are valuable museum showpieces. This paper explains a procedural modelling approach for the construction of the classical kinds of astrolabes, which allows a wide variety of applications from plain explanatory illustrations to three-dimensional (3D) models, and even the production of working physical astrolabes usable for public or classroom demonstrations. | en_US |
| dc.description.number | 8 | en_US |
| dc.description.seriesinformation | Computer Graphics Forum | en_US |
| dc.description.volume | 27 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01193.x | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1467-8659 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pages | 2169-2177 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01193.x | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en_US |
| dc.title | Tangible Heritage: Production of Astrolabes on a Laser Engraver | en_US |