The Representation of Virtual Cultural Heritage Based on Key Events

Abstract

In order to enhance the realism and vivid nature of stories in virtual cultural heritage, an Agent model is used to represent each character in virtual environment. A simple transition structure is designed to meet the needs of narrative representation in virtual environment based on key events description. It can achieve automatic and interactive events generation and their transition. And the story generated modes is adopted to construct story scripts. Finally, this method is applied to reorganize many character’s models and their behaviors of the Tujia wedding show in Virtual Badong. The result shows that it can enhance visitors’ immersion in virtual cultural heritage, make them understand cultural heritage, and increase the breadth and depth of cultural dissemination effectively.