Turning a 3D Archive Into a Touchscreen Experience

Turning a 3D Archive Into a Touchscreen Experience

Behind the scenes of a project that transformed thousands of scanned artifacts into an interactive touchscreen collection visitors can browse, zoom, and rotate.

Behind the scenes of a project that transformed thousands of scanned artifacts into an interactive touchscreen collection visitors can browse, zoom, and rotate.

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Large scale interactive projection installation

The Coastal Heritage Center had over 4,000 digitized objects sitting in a database no visitor could see. Our job was to give that archive a physical presence in the gallery.

We built a touchscreen wall where visitors can rotate 3D scans, compare artifacts side by side, and pull up curator notes — turning a back-office archive into a front-of-house exhibit.

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