ECAI banner

 

ECAI China

Application Examples

Examples of multi-media output

 

China Data Center, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Data from China Data Center in University of Michigan at Ann Arbor can be linked to ECAI in the future.
The China Data Center integrates historical, social, and natural science data into a geographic information system.
For more information, please visit the China Data Center at the University of Michigan

 


Archaeological Computing Lab, University of Sydney

Using animation, mapping can indicate the shifts of spatial areas for
particular features or historical boundaries over particular time periods.

For more information, please visit The Archaeological Computing Lab at the University of Sydney

MapInfo Animations
(Archaeological Computing Lab 1998)

These animations are created directly from GIS data using custom programs developed by the ACL. The programs create temporal interpolations and generate bitmap frames directly from the GIS interface, running on a Pentium PC.

Manchu 1583-1660
AVI (0.75M) / GIF (5M)

Ming 1356-1660
AVI (0.5M) / GIF (3.3M)

Yuan 1260-1371
AVI (0.5M) / GIF (3.4M)

Houdini Animations
(Archaeological Computing Lab 1997)
These are the first animations carried out by the TimeMap project. They involve from a few days to several weeks of individual programming using the Houdini graphics package on an SGI graphics workstation.
Mongol Empire AD 1100 - 1400
Simple outline on satellite backdrop
Original 2D animation (AVI 24M)

Examples of viewing datasets from China with TimeMap