ERATO Proceedings Istanbul 2006.pdf - Odeon

3 Scenario Authoring
Since the beginning of the project, the focus has always been on creating a graphical pipeline that
could be applied to many different scenarios and cultural heritage settings. The goals were to
overcome the development costs involved in creating unique individual characters. We come to a
solution promoting variety, code and content reuse by allowing to prototype quickly different
scenarios, through the use of customizable meshes, textures, colorings, behaviors and scenarios.
Using the thechniques describe in [deHeras2005], we developed different digital actors templates that
cover different social classes as depicted in Fig 3. We try to reproduce the variety in colors and clothes
based on information collected by archeologists.
Figure 3: The different social classes represented in our simulation. We can notice the difference in
color range for clothes.
3.1 Audience placement
An important part of a scenario is the distribution of the audience in the odeon. We created a plan of
the distribution according to historical sources. Fig 4 shows on the left side the plan of the audience
distribution according to social classes of the people – starting from the center there are places for
nobles, patricians and plebeians. On the right side of the figure is the distribution of 3D humans in
the actual model of the Aphrodisias odeon according to the plan.