The millennium project: constructing a dynamic 3+D virtual environment for exploring geographically, temporally and categorically organized historical information

摘要

This paper describes a conceptual and computational approach for enabling understanding of a large, multidimensional set of information. The goal of the Millennium Project is to provide a knowledge seeker the ability to move through virtual time and space to explore and discover the connections between artifacts of philosophy, painting, music, literature, science, and political events of a pivotal time in world history: the years from 1906 to 1918. This virtual space continually constructs and reconstructs itself based on the knowledge seeker's movements through and within it, much like the process of moving through the conceptual spaces of our minds as we construct meaning.