Designing an Augmented Reality Exhibition: Leonardo's Impossible Machines

This paper discusses the origins, development and results of the animated and augmented reality aspects of the exhibition ‘Leonardo’s Impossible Machines’ that was developed at Ravensbourne University (London) and Birkbeck, University of London, with support from the Museo Galileo. The exhibition included novel reconstructions and visualisations of Leonardo’s perpetual motion machines from the Codex Forster, and the process is explained here, along with the challenges of mounting a combined physical and AR show.

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Nick Lambert

Mike Smith

Jazz Rasool

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 271-277

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[0001]Ravensbourne University London

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London SE10 0EW, UK

[0002]Ravensbourne University London

Animation Department

London SE10 0EW, UK

[0003]Ravensbourne University London

Learning Technology Research Centre

London SE10 0EW, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.49

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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J RasoolC Smith Improving Higher Education Quality in Jordan Using Mobile Technologies for Better Socio-economic Diversity Integration of Disadvantaged Groups Using a Mobile Multimedia/Augmented Reality Workflow EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02242-6_11
F WildJ Rasool 2017 Affordances for Capturing and Re-enacting Expert Performance with Wearables European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-66610-5_34

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[1] A Bernardoni 2019 Leonardo da Vinci and Perpetual Motion

[2] J Crary 1990 Techniques of the Observer Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

[3] J Jones 2019 Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion machine http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/leonardo-davincis-elegant-design-for-a-perpetual-motion-machine.html

[4] J Kidd 2014 Museums in the new mediascape Farnham Ashgate

[5] J RasoolC Smith Improving Higher Education Quality in Jordan Using Mobile Technologies for Better Socio-economic Diversity Integration of Disadvantaged Groups Using a Mobile Multimedia/Augmented Reality Workflow EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02242-6_11

[6] F WildJ Rasool 2017 Affordances for Capturing and Re-enacting Expert Performance with Wearables European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-66610-5_34