APPLICATIONS

The Timeline aims to give visitors the History of the West Wing through the timeline, while allowing each visitor to focus only on the information that interests them. The application dynamically connects to the digital repository and can organize its contents in the layout of time. The timeline provides functions for selecting specific categories of information, allowing the visitor to locate the information of interest and focus on it, charting their own personal path through the history of the West Wing and the events that connect them. The information presented in the interactive timeline highlights important milestone events in the broader historical period, while displaying appropriate details related to digitized collection exhibits and 3D models

Creation of digital reports with the ability to support a storytelling flow of the description of the evidence. From gathering the material and documenting it, a 5-minute narrative video of life in the West Wing was created. In the context of experiential education, important objects of life in the monastery, as well as the West wing itself, are represented in three dimensions.

The Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi presents 55 unique examples of its watch collection. Pocket, wall, floor clocks, mantle clocks, clocks with a brass dial and a rare tower clock, all dated after 1830 AD, make up an amazing collection that arrived at the Monastery from various corners of the earth. In the virtual Museum you can see watches from Switzerland, France, England, America, Austria and also China. Among the exhibits, the clocks that have been made in the domestic watch factories of Mount Athos stand out, as well as the clock of the Tower, which is of Greek manufacture

The virtual tour application with panoramas enables a complete digital tour of some monuments or areas through photographic panoramas of areas or exhibition spaces. In addition, the visitor is given the possibility to select specific exhibits and to delve into them by selecting the corresponding link. For each exhibit, it is presented on the panoramic photo through a suitable marking (hotspot). Clicking on the point displays a detailed description of the exhibit, as well as related in-depth links as well as 3D digital extensions of the exhibit. The application includes functionalities that allow the visitor to create a personalized cultural experience according to their interests, needs and prior knowledge. For the virtual tour provided through the online Portal consists of panoramic photos that have a resolution of 16476×8238 pixels

• Contains a sufficient number of panoramic photos to tour the interior of the west wing building as well as the exteriors around it
• The color depth should be at least 24bit
• Use Hotspot in the browsing interface
• Simultaneously display plan view while viewing

I. M. M. Vatopediou has a rich building complex. The building facilities bear witness to their continuous use over the last two centuries. In these facilities, the old glamor and decoration of the premises are simultaneously captured, but also the functional renovation of some of them to harmonize them with the modern needs of hospitality, preserving, however, all the historical architectural and structural elements of the premises. The digitization and 3D visualization of the spaces of the West wing virtually transports the digital visitor and guides him to the old glory, the modern functional use and the inseparable coexistence of both. It is a special and unique characteristic of these buildings to mutate, adapt and serve the different daily needs of each time period. Also the folklore collection of I.M.M. and in particular the clocks are an integral part of the daily as well as the ecclesiastical life of the Monastery. Their history is great and reflects the various contacts of the Monastery with the outside world and how these objects ended up in the Monastery. These objects reflect everyday life, simple or rich, and the multi-level operation of the Monastery in each period of time. Their two-dimensional and three-dimensional photography digitally captures the object, is the basis for the promotion and dissemination of its information and highlights its high aesthetic and historical value. Therefore, in this action, the building of the West Wing, 50 clocks and 5 monuments of the monastery were digitized and modeled. 3D models were used :

1. For interactive use through the project website with WebGL technology, and freedom of movement.
2. To create a 5 minute 3D rendering narrative video. The visitor can in the given duration get to know the building of the west wing as it was in his time, see the exhibits, delve deeper, discover its history. The narrative video is the result of a script that emerges from historical research and documentation related to the exhibit. The narration of the video was done by professional performers and has music and subtitles in the English language.