Authenticity In Digital Archaeological Reconstructions: A Workflow Pipeline and Data Classification System to Inform and Validate the Digital Reconstruction Process

Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies: Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization

“…geometria informativa) underpinning the model to help people think. The suggestion has many similarities with Reilly's proposal (1992) of complementing a visual model with a model showing a layer of data that documents the visualization and other techniques of "uncertainty visualisation" (Kastanis 2019;Pang, Wittenbrink, and Lodha 1997). Barcel o linked the process of simulating the past using a 3 D visualizations to the human process of understanding incomplete sensory information (Barcel o 2000).…”

“…There has been a lot of discussion on how to develop a working reference apparatus that is aligned with the "language" (cf. Manovich 2001) of 3 D models (Vatanen 2003), how to document the sources, inferences, and decisions in the development of a particular aspect of a model (Bentkowska-Kafel, Denard, and Baker 2012), and how to visualize and communicate degrees of uncertainty of interpretations in final models (e.g., Apollonio and Giovannini 2015;Champion 2015;Danielov a, Kumke, and Peters 2016;Kastanis 2019;Reilly and Rahtz 1992). Several proposals exist (e.g., Apollonio and Giovannini 2015;Coeur and Moccozet 2011;Hauck and Kuroczy nski 2015;Kolenda and Markiewicz 2017;Niccolucci 2010;Polig 2017;Ryan 2001) but there is no real consensus on the means.…”

“…For instance, Frankland and Earl (2011) underline the possibility (suggested earlier by, for example, Reilly 1992) to let spectators alternate between a photorealistic view and a view with information on interpretations and uncertainty on the same model. Non-photorealism has not been abandoned but currently, it is used for specific visualization purposes rather than as an alternative for photorealistic rendering (e.g., Abu Bakar et al 2014;Frankland and Earl 2011;Kastanis 2019). It is rather rudimentary as a method of uncertainty visualization (cf.…”

“…In the light of the relative popularity of the photorealistic and non-photorealistic (quasi-) paradigms, it is interesting how the debate on the virtues of nonphotorealistic rendering has all but disappeared from the recent archaeological literature and, at least to a degree, been replaced by the advocacy for increased transparency of complexity and the documentation of the provenance of what is being visualized and described (e.g., Denard 2012;Huggett 2019;Kastanis 2019). At least on a surface level, these suggestions have much in common with the propositions to make information searching slower (e.g., Teevan et al 2013), more difficult (Huvila 2016), to regulate the excessive affective dependence on specific information technologies (Huvila 2016), and to improve citizens' information literacy (e.g., Welsh and Wright 2010).…”