Professor Richard Beacham is a leading international authority on the use of the computer based research and 3D visualisation of historical buildings and artefacts.

Recent Grant-funded Projects

JISC: “The POCOS Project. Preservation of Complex Visual Digital Materials and Environments”. http://www.pocos.org/. ( £150K).

JISC: “3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3dVisA)”. www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa/ (£125K).

JISC: “ARCHES: Antiquity-Related Collections Harnessed for Educational Scenarios”. A Programme for Developing  Digitally Based Teaching Applications and Materials. http://web.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/arches/. (£150K).

The Leverhulme Trust: “The Roman Villa of Oplontis: Computer 3D Modelling”. http://oplontisproject.org/. (£125K).

The Leverhulme Trust: “The Skenographia Project. Investigating Roman Wall Paintings through Digital Visualisation”. http://www.skenographia.cch.kcl.ac.uk/. (£55K).

The Arts and Humanities Research Council: “Making Space: A Methodology for Tracking and Documenting the Cognitive Process in 3 D Visualisation-based Research”. http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/makingspace/. Amongst other outcomes this produced: “The London Charter for Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage”. www.londoncharter.org/. (£105K).

The Arts and Humanities Research Council: “Theatre of Pompey Project” http://www.pompey.cch.kcl.ac.uk/. (£180K).

The Arts and Humanities Research Council: “The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space”. http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/masks/. (£312K).

The Arts and Humanities Research Board: “Adolphe Appia at Hellerau: Virtual Reconstructions and Performances”. http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/appia2.html. (£102K).

HEFCE, SRIF 2: “Mixed and Immersive Reality; Chromakey; and Motion Capture Research with VR Models of Historical Theatres and Settings”. (£70K).

The Mellon Foundation: Partner in the “Humanities Virtual World Consortium, Initial Planning Grant to Develop Multi-Phase and Multi-year Projected aimed at Enabled Humanistic Inquiry in Virtual Worlds”. ($50K).

The Metropolitan Museum, New York: “The Roman Villa of Boscoreale: a Virtual Reconstruction” http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/boscoreale.html. (£20K).

The J. Paul Getty Trust: “Conservation Grant to assist in the restoration of the Hellerau Festspielhaus”. ($250K).

The J. Paul Getty Museum: “Producing Plautus Professionally on a Replica Roman Stage”. http://www.didaskalia.net/issues/vol2no3/beacham.html. ($350K).

The European Commission: Partner in the “Virtual Museums Transnational Network of Excellence”. Virtual Museums Transnational Network of Excellence, V-Must. 4.5 Million Euros. (http://www.v-must.net/). (King’s Visualisation Lab funding £351K).

The European Commission: “The THEATRON Project. Theatre History in Europe: Architectural and Textual Resources Online”.  http://www.theatron.org/. (£450K).

The EduServ Foundation: “THEATRON 3: Research-Based Interactive Historic Architectural Learning Environments in the ‘Second Life’ Online Virtual World”. http://tinyurl.com/2l6gts.  And http://cms.cch.kcl.ac.uk/theatron/. (£131K).

The British Academy: “Architectural Evolution of the Theatres at Pompeii: A Collaborative Programme of Site Survey, Archaeological Analysis, and Computer 3D Modelling”. (£6K).

The Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew:  “How Kew Grew”. A VR representation of the History of Kew Gardens. http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/kew.html. (£73K).

                                                                                                   Gallery of images from Recent Projects

                         Replica Roman stage based upon the evidence of Roman wall paintings, created for a research and performance project at the Getty Museum.