El Festival de Tango en Granada cumple 20 años y traerá en esta edición un centenar de artistas

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– El Festival de Tango en Granada cumple 20 años y traerá en esta edición un centenar de artistas

El Festival de Tango en Granada cumple veinte años y lo celebrará con muy buena salud. Actuarán un centenar de artistas en muchos de los barrios de la ciudad (Zaidín, Chana, Albaicín, Centro…), llegarán también actividades paralelas a Cúllar Vega, Loja, Orce y Lanjarón y se actuará en edificios (Teatro Isabel la Católica, Centro Cívico del Zaidín, Hotel San Antón o Museo Arqueológico) y en la calle (Mirador de San Nicolás, Fuente de las Batallas, Plaza del Carmen o Plaza Bib-Rambla).

Del 4 al 9 de marzo, artistas de todo el mundo –Argentina, Chile, Japón, Finlandia, Suecia, Italia…- actuarán diariamente en el Teatro Isabel la Católica, dentro de la programación oficial, excepto el primer día, en que el festival se inaugurará en la Plaza del Carmen, de la mano del Coro Daraxa, y en Bib-Rambla, donde estará la Orquesta Típica Tangarte.

El festival, como ha explicado su director, Horacio Rebora, se abre a otras músicas, como el flamenco y el jazz, tal y como hará en el Mirador de San Nicolás; y también se abre a nuevas experiencias, como el concierto de tango con ritmos electrónicos, fusiones y sonidos clásicos que tendrá lugar en la discoteca Mae West el jueves a partir de las once de la noche.

El tango tampoco dejará de lado la Universidad de Granada: habrá conciertos en el Aula Magna de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; ni tampoco a los que quieran aprender a bailar: se darán clases en el Hotel San Antón, sede del ‘País del Tango’, donde se podrán adquirir libros, discos, ropa, etc.
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L’Università di Padova coordina in Australia un progetto internazionale

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– L’Università di Padova coordina in Australia un progetto internazionale.

Si sono aperti il 1° febbraio a Canberra in Australia, i lavori per la seconda scuola internazionale del progetto EURISPET (European Intensive Seminars of Petrology), coordinato dal professor Bernardo CESARE del Dipartimento di Geoscienze dell’Università degli Studi di Padova e finanziato dalla Commissione Europea.

Obiettivo del progetto EURISPET è il consolidamento di una rete di eccellenza per studenti, ricercatori e docenti aderenti al progetto, favorendo lo scambio di idee e collaborazioni future nelle diverse realtà nazionali.

Gli incontri del progetto si inseriscono in uno sforzo congiunto dei diversi Atenei verso una maggiore internazionalizzazione della scienza: EURISPET si sviluppa infatti in collaborazione con quattro università europee oltre alla Australian National University di Canberra, che sono la Eostov University di Budapest, l’Università di Granada, l’Istitut de Physique du Globe de Paris, la Eidenössische Technische Hochschule di Zurigo e l’Università degli Studi di Padova.

Gli incontri permettono a studenti e ricercatori di diverse nazionalità di seguire seminari sui temi di ricerca più avanzati sui problemi di Petrologia, la scienza che studia la formazione delle rocce, in un’ottica di dialogo e internazionalizzazione della scienza.

Si tratta del primo intervento di un partner australiano in un progetto di questo tipo, composto di un ciclo di sei incontri itineranti che vedrà protagonista anche Padova nel giugno 2010. Per l’edizione di EURISPET di Canberra, il cui tema è “Gli isotopi applicati ai problemi di Petrologia”, partecipano 50 dottorandi selezionati in base al curriculum e 15 docenti provenienti da 24 paesi diversi, fra i quali sei ricercatori italiani.
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Earth’s temperature linked to earthquakes

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– Earths temperature linked to earthquakes

Spanish scientists have linked the temperature of the Earths crust to the planets seismic activity.

The researchers from the University of Granada and the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences also determined African and European tectonic plates move about 4 millimeters closer each year, creating small, continuous earthquakes in the Gibraltar Arc area — a region of mountains that wraps around the northern, western and southern sides of the Alboran Sea.

The scientists said their findings characterize the physical and mechanical properties of the Earths crust in the area, as well as determining the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher crust temperature.

The researchers also discovered the western area of the Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas — all located within the Gibraltar Arc — is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earths crust, while Spain and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will most likely experience fewer seismic movements.

The research by Fermin Fernandez Ibanez, Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and Jose Molares Soto is reported in both the Journal of Geophysical Research and the journal Tectonics.

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Earth’s temperature linked to earthquakes

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– Earths temperature linked to earthquakes

Spanish scientists have linked the temperature of the Earths crust to the planets seismic activity.

The researchers from the University of Granada and the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences also determined African and European tectonic plates move about 4 millimeters closer each year, creating small, continuous earthquakes in the Gibraltar Arc area — a region of mountains that wraps around the northern, western and southern sides of the Alboran Sea.

The scientists said their findings characterize the physical and mechanical properties of the Earths crust in the area, as well as determining the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher crust temperature.

The researchers also discovered the western area of the Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas — all located within the Gibraltar Arc — is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earths crust, while Spain and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will most likely experience fewer seismic movements.

The research by Fermin Fernandez Ibanez, Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and Jose Molares Soto is reported in both the Journal of Geophysical Research and the journal Tectonics.

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Christopher Columbus: Jew?

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– Christopher Columbus: Jew?

There may be a statue of Christopher Columbus next to an Astoria subway station in Queens, but some ambitious historians are promoting arguments that could lead some to think that such a statue is better placed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Claims that Columbus was of Jewish origins have been circulating for years now, mostly from a handful of professors and history buffs. A recent article by Rivka Shpak Lissak on the Web site OMedia.org poses new evidence that Columbus was of Marrano heritage, meaning that his family descended from Sephardic Jews who practiced their religion in secret during and after the Spanish Inquisition.

The article suggests in part that Columbus’s Jewish identity is affirmed by several factors: His crew included Jews, he referenced the Inquisition in his journal and his signature contained Jewish symbols. Those claims, however, have been met with researched assertions that Columbus was a Christian who lived during a time when learned European men viewed Jewish literacy as a sign of erudition. Findings in a DNA test performed by University of Granada forensic geneticist José Lorente at Columbus’s gravesite in Seville, Spain, proved that Columbus was surely Caucasian. Lorente did not find any evidence that Columbus was of Jewish descent. Consuela Varela, a historian at Spain’s Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, has stated that Columbus refused to baptize his slaves not because of his faith but because Spanish law forbade the enslavement of Christians.

In any case, the claim that Columbus was a Jew is a popular one. Browsing the Internet in search of answers will bring Web surfers to antisemitic sites as well as to sites that are Jewish run, each putting its own spin on the story. What we do know for a fact is that New Jersey contains more Columbus statues than any other state. Now that might make him Jewish.
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Active faults in Gibraltar Arc are finally mapped

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– Active faults in Gibraltar Arc are finally mapped.

The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc — an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc — an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

A group of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (CSIC) and the Department of Geodynamics of the University of Granada (UGR) described for the first time the physical and mechanical properties of the uppermost part of the Earth’s crust — to a depth of 30 km which is where the highest magnitude earthquakes occur. This study has made it possible to establish the exact position of the active faults of the Gibraltar Arc area which cause earthquakes, thus obtaining valuable geological information which could help determine the areas in which earthquakes are most likely to occur.

The author of this study is Fermín Fernández Ibáñez, whose doctoral thesis Sismicidad, reología y estructura térmica de la corteza del Arco de Gibraltar (Seismicity, reology and thermal structure of the Gibraltar Arc crust) was directed by researchers Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and José Molares Soto. This study, which was carried out within the CSIC project entitled The Gibraltar Arc System: Active Geodynamic Processes in the South-Iberian Margins (SAGAS), made the most comprehensive radiography so far in the faults of the Alboran Sea, the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea.

The researchers characterised a region of intense deformation in which the relative movement of blocks is caused by left-lateral strike-slip faults known as “the Transalboran fault system,” which expands from Murcia (Spain) to Alhucemas (Morocco). The other significant fault of the Gibraltar Arc area, which crosses the Transalboran fault perpendicularly, is called Nerja-Yusuf and goes from Málaga (Spain) to the Algerian coast.

Study of oil wells

Fernández and Soto assure that the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa are very similar in geology. In order to characterise the way the Gibraltal Arc is being deformed due to pushing plates, the researchers studied oil wells, analysing the disfigurations caused by these forces.

This doctoral thesis could help to prevent natural disasters like the one that occurred in Indonesia in 2004, when a tsunami killed more than 300,000 people and flooded entire cities. In any case, researcher Fernández stated that although the Gibraltar Arc is an area of intense seismic activity and the movements of the faults could produce tsunamis, it is almost impossible that such a phenomenon would occur.

In addition, the study conducted at UGR related for the first time the temperature of the Earth’s crust to its seismic activity, thus determining that the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher temperature. Therefore, the western area of Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas (which are located within the Gibraltar Arc) is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earth’s crust, while the area of Almería (Spain) and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will probably experience fewer seismic movements.

Results from this interesting study were published in renowned scientific journals like the Journal of Geophysical Research or Tectonics. The research group in which researchers Fernández and Soto participate is a member of Topo-Iberia, an important project which aims at creating an unprecedented temporal seismic broadband net in Spain, composed by a minimum of 80 seismic stations 50-60 km apart and which will have simultaneous and homogenous coverage in different regions. Furthermore, Topo-Ibseria will create the biggest Spanish GPS net ever created.
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Earth’s temperature linked to earthquakes

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– Earths temperature linked to earthquakes

Spanish scientists have linked the temperature of the Earths crust to the planets seismic activity.

The researchers from the University of Granada and the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences also determined African and European tectonic plates move about 4 millimeters closer each year, creating small, continuous earthquakes in the Gibraltar Arc area — a region of mountains that wraps around the northern, western and southern sides of the Alboran Sea.

The scientists said their findings characterize the physical and mechanical properties of the Earths crust in the area, as well as determining the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher crust temperature.

The researchers also discovered the western area of the Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas — all located within the Gibraltar Arc — is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earths crust, while Spain and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will most likely experience fewer seismic movements.

The research by Fermin Fernandez Ibanez, Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and Jose Molares Soto is reported in both the Journal of Geophysical Research and the journal Tectonics.
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Earth’s temperature linked to earthquakes

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– Earths temperature linked to earthquakes

Spanish scientists have linked the temperature of the Earths crust to the planets seismic activity.

The researchers from the University of Granada and the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences also determined African and European tectonic plates move about 4 millimeters closer each year, creating small, continuous earthquakes in the Gibraltar Arc area — a region of mountains that wraps around the northern, western and southern sides of the Alboran Sea.

The scientists said their findings characterize the physical and mechanical properties of the Earths crust in the area, as well as determining the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher crust temperature.

The researchers also discovered the western area of the Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas — all located within the Gibraltar Arc — is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earths crust, while Spain and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will most likely experience fewer seismic movements.

The research by Fermin Fernandez Ibanez, Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and Jose Molares Soto is reported in both the Journal of Geophysical Research and the journal Tectonics.
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Active faults in Gibraltar Arc are finally mapped

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– Active faults in Gibraltar Arc are finally mapped.

The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc — an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc — an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

A group of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (CSIC) and the Department of Geodynamics of the University of Granada (UGR) described for the first time the physical and mechanical properties of the uppermost part of the Earth’s crust — to a depth of 30 km which is where the highest magnitude earthquakes occur. This study has made it possible to establish the exact position of the active faults of the Gibraltar Arc area which cause earthquakes, thus obtaining valuable geological information which could help determine the areas in which earthquakes are most likely to occur.

The author of this study is Fermín Fernández Ibáñez, whose doctoral thesis Sismicidad, reología y estructura térmica de la corteza del Arco de Gibraltar (Seismicity, reology and thermal structure of the Gibraltar Arc crust) was directed by researchers Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and José Molares Soto. This study, which was carried out within the CSIC project entitled The Gibraltar Arc System: Active Geodynamic Processes in the South-Iberian Margins (SAGAS), made the most comprehensive radiography so far in the faults of the Alboran Sea, the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea.

The researchers characterised a region of intense deformation in which the relative movement of blocks is caused by left-lateral strike-slip faults known as “the Transalboran fault system,” which expands from Murcia (Spain) to Alhucemas (Morocco). The other significant fault of the Gibraltar Arc area, which crosses the Transalboran fault perpendicularly, is called Nerja-Yusuf and goes from Málaga (Spain) to the Algerian coast.

Study of oil wells

Fernández and Soto assure that the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa are very similar in geology. In order to characterise the way the Gibraltal Arc is being deformed due to pushing plates, the researchers studied oil wells, analysing the disfigurations caused by these forces.

This doctoral thesis could help to prevent natural disasters like the one that occurred in Indonesia in 2004, when a tsunami killed more than 300,000 people and flooded entire cities. In any case, researcher Fernández stated that although the Gibraltar Arc is an area of intense seismic activity and the movements of the faults could produce tsunamis, it is almost impossible that such a phenomenon would occur.

In addition, the study conducted at UGR related for the first time the temperature of the Earth’s crust to its seismic activity, thus determining that the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher temperature. Therefore, the western area of Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas (which are located within the Gibraltar Arc) is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earth’s crust, while the area of Almería (Spain) and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will probably experience fewer seismic movements.

Results from this interesting study were published in renowned scientific journals like the Journal of Geophysical Research or Tectonics. The research group in which researchers Fernández and Soto participate is a member of Topo-Iberia, an important project which aims at creating an unprecedented temporal seismic broadband net in Spain, composed by a minimum of 80 seismic stations 50-60 km apart and which will have simultaneous and homogenous coverage in different regions. Furthermore, Topo-Ibseria will create the biggest Spanish GPS net ever created.

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Scientists design the first map of active faults in the Gibraltar Arc to prevent earthquakes

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– Scientists design the first map of active faults in the Gibraltar Arc to prevent earthquakes.

Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc — an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

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A group of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (CSIC) and the Department of Geodynamics of the University of Granada described for the first time the physical and mechanical properties of the uppermost part of the Earth’s crust — to a depth of 30 km which is where the highest magnitude earthquakes occur. This study has made it possible to establish the exact position of the active faults of the Gibraltar Arc area which cause earthquakes, thus obtaining valuable geological information which could help determine the areas in which earthquakes are most likely to occur.

The author of this study is Fermín Fernández Ibáñez, whose doctoral thesis Sismicidad, reología y estructura térmica de la corteza del Arco de Gibraltar (Seismicity, reology and thermal structure of the Gibraltar Arc crust) was directed by researchers Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and José Molares Soto. This study, which was carried out within the CSIC project entitled The Gibraltar Arc System: Active Geodynamic Processes in the South-Iberian Margins (SAGAS), made the most comprehensive radiography so far in the faults of the Alboran Sea, the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea.

The researchers characterised a region of intense deformation in which the relative movement of blocks is caused by left-lateral strike-slip faults known as “the Transalboran fault system,” which expands from Murcia (Spain) to Alhucemas (Morocco). The other significant fault of the Gibraltar Arc area, which crosses the Transalboran fault perpendicularly, is called Nerja-Yusuf and goes from Málaga (Spain) to the Algerian coast.

Study of oil wells

Fernández and Soto assure that the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa are very similar in geology. In order to characterise the way the Gibraltal Arc is being deformed due to pushing plates, the researchers studied oil wells, analysing the disfigurations caused by these forces.

This doctoral thesis could help to prevent natural disasters like the one that occurred in Indonesia in 2004, when a tsunami killed more than 300,000 people and flooded entire cities. In any case, researcher Fernández stated that although the Gibraltar Arc is an area of intense seismic activity and the movements of the faults could produce tsunamis, it is almost impossible that such a phenomenon would occur.

In addition, the study conducted at UGR related for the first time the temperature of the Earth’s crust to its seismic activity, thus determining that the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher temperature. Therefore, the western area of Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas (which are located within the Gibraltar Arc) is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earth’s crust, while the area of Almería (Spain) and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will probably experience fewer seismic movements.

Results from this interesting study were published in renowned scientific journals like the Journal of Geophysical Research or Tectonics. The research group in which researchers Fernández and Soto participate is a member of Topo-Iberia, an important project which aims at creating an unprecedented temporal seismic broadband net in Spain, composed by a minimum of 80 seismic stations 50-60 km apart and which will have simultaneous and homogenous coverage in different regions. Furthermore, Topo-Iberia will create the biggest Spanish GPS net ever created.
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Scientists design the first map of active faults in the Gibraltar Arc to prevent earthquakes

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– Scientists design the first map of active faults in the Gibraltar Arc to prevent earthquakes

Africa and Europe get about 4 mm closer every year in a northeast convergence direction. The exact position and geometry of the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates is unknown, but it is located near the Gibraltar Arc – an area of intense seismic activity which was not studied deeply until now.

A group of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (CSIC) and the Department of Geodynamics of the University of Granada described for the first time the physical and mechanical properties of the uppermost part of the Earths crust – to a depth of 30 km which is where the highest magnitude earthquakes occur. This study has made it possible to establish the exact position of the active faults of the Gibraltar Arc area which cause earthquakes, thus obtaining valuable geological information which could help determine the areas in which earthquakes are most likely to occur.

The author of this study is Fermin Fernandez Ibanez, whose doctoral thesis ‘Seismicity, reology and thermal structure of the Gibraltar Arc crust’ was directed by researchers Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso and Jose Molares Soto. This study, which was carried out within the CSIC project entitled The Gibraltar Arc System: Active Geodynamic Processes in the South-Iberian Margins (SAGAS), made the most comprehensive radiography so far in the faults of the Alboran Sea, the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea.

The researchers characterised a region of intense deformation in which the relative movement of blocks is caused by left-lateral strike-slip faults known as the Transalboran fault system, which expands from Murcia (Spain) to Alhucemas (Morocco). The other significant fault of the Gibraltar Arc area, which crosses the Transalboran fault perpendicularly, is called Nerja-Yusuf and goes from Malaga (Spain) to the Algerian coast.

Fernandez and Soto assure that the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa are very similar in geology. In order to characterise the way the Gibraltar Arc is being deformed due to pushing plates, the researchers studied oil wells, analysing the disfigurations caused by these forces.

This doctoral thesis could help to prevent natural disasters like the one that occurred in Indonesia in 2004, when a tsunami killed more than 300,000 people and flooded entire cities. In any case, researcher Fernandez stated that although the Gibraltar Arc is an area of intense seismic activity and the movements of the faults could produce tsunamis, it is almost impossible that such a phenomenon would occur.

In addition, the study conducted at UGR related for the first time the temperature of the Earths crust to its seismic activity, thus determining that the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher temperature. Therefore, the western area of Sierra Nevada and Alhucemas (which are located within the Gibraltar Arc) is the area in which most earthquakes occur due to low temperatures in the Earths crust, while the area of Almeria (Spain) and the eastern area of the Alboran Sea will probably experience fewer seismic movements.

Results from this interesting study were published in renowned scientific journals like the Journal of Geophysical Research or Tectonics. The research group in which researchers Fernandez and Soto participate is a member of Topo-Iberia, an important project which aims at creating an unprecedented temporal seismic broadband net in Spain, composed by a minimum of 80 seismic stations 50-60 km apart and which will have simultaneous and homogenous coverage in different regions. Furthermore, Topo-Iberia will create the biggest Spanish GPS net ever created.

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La Catedral con otros ojos

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– La Catedral con otros ojos.

Unas gafas basadas en la técnica de realidad virtual permitirán ver concluida, desde la misma plaza del Obispo, la segunda torre del templo.

DICEN que la realidad depende de los ojos que la miran. Y es cierto. Robocop utilizaba sus ojos de cristal para analizar el entorno: junto a cada objeto salía información adicional que le indicaba lo que veía. Pues algo parecido es lo que un grupo de investigadores de la Universidad de Málaga hacen para promocionar el patrimonio cultural de Andalucía. Se trata de una tecnología relativamente nueva llamada realidad aumentada que se basa en combinar elementos reales y virtuales al mismo tiempo. Así, la Catedral de Málaga se puede ver, al fin, concluida: con su segunda torre ya completa.

Las Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación constituyen hoy en día una herramienta imprescindible para el desarrollo de cualquier materia científica. Disciplinas tan dispares como la Medicina o la Arquitectura han encontrado en ellas un elemento que facilita su aplicación. La promoción del patrimonio andaluz también puede beneficiarse de su uso. De esta manera, se podría, por ejemplo, visualizar desde la plaza del Obispo como quedaría la Catedral de Málaga si se hubiese concluido su segunda torre, recontruir Medina Azahara a partir de sus bases o anotar con texto flotante qué se ve desde cada ventana de la Giralda.

«A lo Robocop»

Dirigido por la profesora del equipo de Tecnología Electrónica de la Universidad de Málaga Cristina Urdiales, el proyecto Sistema de Información aumentada de monumentos andaluces (SIAMA) ha sido subvencionado por la Consejería de Innovación con más de 120.000 euros y ha desarrollado «una especie de gafas parecidas a las de Robocop» que ofrece estas imágenes virtuales, explica la investigadora.

Con estas lentes, la perspectiva que ofrece la realidad aumentada en Málaga es de especial interés, si se tiene en cuenta el bagaje histórico de la ciudad y las transformaciones que ésta ha sufrido con el tiempo. Esta herramienta permitirá imaginar el aspecto de cualquier ciudad en los siglos anteriores, y disfrutar del patrimonio con explicaciones que surgen en la pantalla de estas lentes. Desde este punto de vista, podrían recrearse entornos y edificios de forma digital, sin alterar en forma alguna el conjunto físico, de forma que el visitante pueda percibir las cosas como fueron o como podrían haber sido, así como recibir información adicional en sus propios ojos (texto y audio) sobre lo que observa.

Pero la realidad aumentada da mucho más de sí, y se puede utilizar para crear otra serie de escenarios. La empresa malagueña Pi-audiovisual ya se ha interesado por esta herramienta con la que se pueden diseñar, entre otras cosas, superficies interactivas. Esto consiste, por ejemplo, en obtener una pared que cambia de color cuando una persona pasa por delante o un suelo marino, como el que Jesús Vázquez tiene en Supervivientes, en el que conforme se pisa se proyectan las ondas del agua.

Equipo interdisciplinar

Para el desarrollo de un proyecto de estas características se requiere la aplicación de conocimientos procedentes de diferentes disciplinas científicas. Cada una es necesaria para llevar a cabo una parte de la investigación. El equipo de Tecnología Electrónica de Málaga se encarga «del análisis y procesado de la señal de vídeo para componer la imagen aumentada a partir de elementos arquitectónicos que suministran las escuelas de Arquitectura y Estudios Árabes de la Universidad de Granada, y los compañeros de Historia del Arte aportan el contenido a añadir», apunta la profesora Urdiales.

Se trata, en definitiva de una herramienta muy educativa con la que se aprende de manera lúdica ayudando a conocer y disfrutar del presente y pasado del patrimonio andaluz.
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