![]() ![]() A popular tourist destination that is featured in many movies, tv shows, and comics, La Brea Tar Pits looms large in the public’s perceptions (and misperceptions) of prehistoric life. Still under excavation, the Tar Pits are the only active paleontological dig site located within a major metropolis and provide a unique opportunity to show the public the entire process of paleontology from excavation and preparation to research and display. The bubbling asphalt seeps, still active today, are renowned for their preservation of entire Quaternary ecosystems in great detail from pollen and insects to whole trees and mammoths (Stock and Harris, 1992). Rancho La Brea (commonly called La Brea Tar Pits) is a famous lagerstatte in California, USA preserving plant and animal remains from the last 60 ka of the Los Angeles Basin. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Ĭ/licenses/by/4.0 INTRODUCTION content/2022/3524-la-brea-tar-pits-paleoartĬopyright: March 2022 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for augmented reality at La Brea Tar Pits. Keywords: paleoart augmented reality Pleistocene La Brea Tar Pits museums 3Dįinal citation: Davis, Matt, Nye, Benjamin D., Sinatra, Gale M., Swartout, William, Sjӧberg, Molly, Porter, Molly, Nelson, David, Kennedy, Alana A.U., Herrick, Imogen, DeNeve Weeks, Danaan, and Lindsey, Emily. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, 619 Charles E. La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA. La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA.Įmily Lindsey. University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, 3470 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4036, USA.ĭanaan DeNeve Weeks. University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, 3470 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4036, USA. University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, 12015 Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, CA 90094, USA.Īlana A.U. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.ĭavid Nelson. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA. University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, 12015 Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, CA 90094, USA. Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, 3470 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.īenjamin D. We encourage all researchers to follow the example of this article by publishing paleoart descriptions for any major new work that, at a minimum, reference the aesthetic and scientific reasoning behind general posture and proportions, gross appearance of soft tissues, coloration, and behavior. ![]() We adopted a stylized low polygon aesthetic for these three-dimensional (3D), animated virtual models both to support learning objectives and to optimize performance for smartphone based augmented reality (AR) experiences. As an example of what we hope will become a standard article type in paleontological journals, we describe the process and latest scientific research used to develop 13 new paleoart reconstructions of Ice Age animals found in the La Brea Tar Pits, including the saber-toothed cat, dire wolf, and teratorn. This is unfortunate, as paleoart can easily create and perpetuate misconceptions that are carried through generations of iterative popular media. However, despite its broad influence, the scientific and aesthetic decisions that go into paleoart are rarely described in formal academic literature or subjected to peer review. Paleoart is an important medium that communicates scientific understanding about prehistoric life to both the public and researchers. Plain-language and multi-lingual abstracts Kennedy, Imogen Herrick, Danaan DeNeve Weeks, and Emily LindseyĬopyright Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, March 2022 Sinatra, William Swartout, Molly Sjӧberg, Molly Porter, David Nelson, Alana A.U. Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for augmented reality at La Brea Tar Pits ![]()
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