Priest’s Grotto Project Making of a Virtual Environment

NSS 2016 Video Salon. Produced by Benjamin von Cramon. Excerpted from a longer and more technical version, the film introduces a traveling exhibit about the Priest’s Grotto’s survivor story and showcases the supporting platform for one component of the exhibit, a photorealistic virtual environment each visitor will explore to “learn” the cave and discover story elements. Highlighted are the key challenges encountered with photogrammetric 3D mapping, lighting, and post-processing, not to mention making it all work underground in a gnarly maze cave.