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SUN DAGGER RECEIVES HONORABLE MENTION AT THE MUSE AWARDS

for more information on the MUSE awards vist the American Association of Museums Website

HONORABLE MENTION: Sun Dagger Explorer
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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Solstice Project & Alan Price, The Ohio State University

Judges said:
The combination of the detail accuracy and stunning content makes this interactive kiosk shine. The subject matter presentation is extremely compelling. The depth of interaction with the solstice based pieces and astronomical achievements of the ancient culture provide an in-depth experience with a physical location closed to public visitation. The jury was impressed with the detailed digital recreation of this archaeologically significant site.

Producers said:
The Sun Dagger Explorer is an accurate, interactive digital recreation of a 1000-year-old celestial calendar found in Chaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico. Using a set of intuitive controls, visitors can explore a high-resolution 3D model (made from a laser scan of the original Sun Dagger site) effortlessly moving through space and speeding through time to see how light passing through carefully-aligned rock slabs and onto spiral petroglyphs mark solstices, equinoxes, and other solar and lunar events. This interactive kiosk sits just outside the Museum's planetarium, emphasizing the long history of astronomy in the southwestern U.S.

The Sun Dagger Explorer software was designed and programmed by Alan Price at the Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, based on research by Anna Sofaer of the Solstice Project and utilizing laser scans of the Sun Dagger site made by Western Mapping, Inc. The kiosk implementation was created by a partnership between the Solstice Project, Alan Price, and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.


About theSolstice Project I Films I Book I Sun Dagger Model I For Educators I Research Papers I Teaching/Events I Preservation I LInks I Contact Us
SUN DAGGER RECEIVES HONORABLE MENTION AT THE MUSE AWARDS for more information on the MUSE awards vist the American Association of Museums Website HONORABLE MENTION: Sun Dagger Explorer New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and Solstice Project & Alan Price, The Ohio State University Judges said: The combination of the detail accuracy and stunning content makes this interactive kiosk shine. The subject matter presentation is extremely compelling. The depth of interaction with the solstice based pieces and astronomical achievements of the ancient culture provide an in-depth experience with a physical location closed to public visitation. The jury was impressed with the detailed digital recreation of this archaeologically significant site. Producers said: The Sun Dagger Explorer is an accurate, interactive digital recreation of a 1000-year-old celestial calendar found in Chaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico. Using a set of intuitive controls, visitors can explore a high-resolution 3D model (made from a laser scan of the original Sun Dagger site) effortlessly moving through space and speeding through time to see how light passing through carefully-aligned rock slabs and onto spiral petroglyphs mark solstices, equinoxes, and other solar and lunar events. This interactive kiosk sits just outside the Museum's planetarium, emphasizing the long history of astronomy in the southwestern U.S. The Sun Dagger Explorer software was designed and programmed by Alan Price at the Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, based on research by Anna Sofaer of the Solstice Project and utilizing laser scans of the Sun Dagger site made by Western Mapping, Inc. The kiosk implementation was created by a partnership between the Solstice Project, Alan Price, and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.