This interdisciplinary research project combines the fields of nautical archaeology and computer visualization to create an interactive virtual reconstruction of the 1606 Portuguese vessel Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, also known as the Pepper Wreck. Using reconstruction information provided by Dr. Filipe Castro (Texas A&M Department of Anthropology), a detailed 3D computer model of the ship was constructed and filled with cargo to demonstrate how the ship might have been loaded on the return voyage from India. The models are realistically shaded, lighted, and placed into an appropriate virtual environment. The scene can be viewed using the real-time immersive and interactive system developed by Dr. Frederic Parke (Texas A&M Department of Visualization). The process developed to convert the available information and data into a reconstructed 3D model is documented. This documentation allows future projects to adapt this process for other archaeological visualizations, as well as informs archaeologists about the type of data most useful for computer visualizations of this kind.

A projected fringe profilometry (PFP) is an optical measurements technology which is widely used at present in gauging the object's three dimensional appearance. PFP is frequently used in detecting the quality of products in the industry due to the specialty of non-contact type, the short retrieve time and low environmental effect. As a result of the development for many years, PFP treats in the gauging static state of the object's three dimensional appearance has had the extremely fine gauging efficiency and the precision in , however in the dynamic inspected object in the gauging , not yet was still mature. If could to develop a set of gauging way in the dynamic inspected object , the application would be more widespread. Taking PFP as the gauging principle, analyzing the changes between the dynamic treat measured object and the fringe. Using the simple mathematics to describe the interaction relations between the fringe and the inspected the object. Finally, reconstructed the inspected object' three dimensional appearance. May know biggest superiority by the experimental process, in the situation of without losing the information of fringe, PFP can reconstruct the inspected object' three dimensional appearance and do not need the motion condition information.

In this thesis we treat two inverse problems concerning the determination of unknown boundary terms. <br />We deal with the stability issue and the reconstruction one as well.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät--Universität Bayreuth, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 345-358.

Thèse de doctorat--Signal et images--Paris--ENST, 2007. / Bibliogr. p. 159-175. Index. Résumé en anglais et en français.

Thèse de doctorat : Images et Systèmes : Villeurbanne, INSA : 2002. / Le chap.7 est rédigé en anglais. Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. p.145-150.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-117). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-124).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-123).

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