Experiments in Digital Memorialization

Experiments and examples of photogrammetry, Gaussian Splatting, neural radiance fields (NeRFs) applied to various historical memorials, historical imagery, and local, community level spaces.  The channel seeks to demonstrate that even modest or low fidelity capture can produce reasonably illustrative and evocative results and new approaches to engaging with the past.  The author, Dr. Roland Burke (LTU), is a historian with specialization in human rights (post-1945) and memorialization, with no formal training in computer science, optics, remote sensing, or computational imaging / image based rendering.  Accordingly, the various capture animations here are designed to demonstrate the sorts of output and fidelity a humanities scholar can achieve -  that is, seeking to show the accessibility and extensibility of the techniques to new subjects.  Aspects on sporting idealism and its memorialization facilitated by research undertaken as part of DP170100291.