“Rediscovering Korea’s Ancient Skies: An Immersive, Interactive 3D Map of Traditional Korean Constellations in the Milky Way” presented by Jang and L’Huillier

Symposium:

• ISEA2019: 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Digital Heritage

• Rediscovering Korea’s Ancient Skies: An Immersive, Interactive 3D Map of Traditional Korean Constellations in the Milky Way

• Sung-A Jang
• Benjamin L’Huillier

Venue(s):

• Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju, South Korea

• In this work, we visualized Korea’s traditional constellations within an interactive 3D star map we created of the Milky Way. Unlike virtual planetariums based on celestial star coordinates from Earth’s viewpoint, our visualization enables people to experience and interact with Korean constellation forms and its constituent stars in 3D space, and appreciate their historical, cultural significance from a contemporary perspective. Our interactive constellation map is based on the most detailed and accurate information on the stars in our Galaxy to date, and combines our expanding scientific understanding of the stars with contextual information reflecting Korea’s unique astronomical culture and heritage.

Category:

• Paper
• Short Paper