Abstract
The knowledge of historical and architectural heritage is today reinforced by the growing use of digital instruments serving the purpose of documenting and disseminating data. The development techniques to build 3D models made them pivotal elements in popularizing information on objects on the scale of architectonic structures. Digital archives supplement 3D models with heterogeneous data (2D models, images, texts, video materials, bibliographical documents) with the purpose to preserve, evaluate and popularize cultural heritage (CH) by devising an open system of knowledge. This study puts forward a critical operative method and some guidelines to record, construct, manage, visualize and navigate 3D models with a view to achieving a full comprehension of the architecture in their own context, permitting to discover their inter-relationships through a digital archive.
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René Descartes distinguishes between normal knowledge, achieved only by our senses, and profound knowledge, achieved by scholars using only study methods and techniques that can demonstrate to the mind what is precluded to the senses.
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All operations that envisage the gathering of knowledge need to have a reference framework both vis-à-vis the data acquisition method (surveying) and the selection, processing and restitution of the acquired data (survey).
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Quality is here understood as a description of contingent or permanent properties of an object. It designates any concretely determined formal aspect of a given reality. Thus, a meteorological setting is qualitatively described by an aggregate of parameters that define the characteristic of measure: uncertainty, repeatability, accuracy.
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“The stage of data acquisition […] should always be considered as an application of a scientific method […] based on a collection of empirically observable and measurable data […] which can be archived […] subjected to external verification […] to be validated; the applied procedure should be replicable in order to acquire a new aggregate of data comparable to the preceding one”.
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Technologies that make it possible to capture millions of points on surfaces without the requiste of establish the measured distances. The result of their application differs qualitatively and quantitatively from that obtained with traditional instruments, which always assume the operator's selection of the salient points to measure of the object of study (3D laser scanning, Structure from Motion technology, Gigaphoto).
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This technique offers the possibility to generate 3D content from photographic images without the need of high-cost hardware. This technology originates in the theory of photogrammetry and makes it possible to build 3D models on the basis of photographs.
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NIKON D300 camera with CMOS sensor of 12 MP.
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Geometric (1:100) and architectural (1:50) plans, elevations and sections.
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Metadata, considered as data about data, can help to organize information and provide digital identification and to understand the process through which one or more artifacts were processed or interpreted (The London Charter, version 2.1).
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3DHOP (3D Heritage Online Presenter) is an open-source software package for the creation of interactive Web presentations of high-resolution 3D models, oriented to the Cultural Heritage field. It allows the creation of interactive visualization of 3D models directly inside a standard web page, just by adding some HTML and JavaScript components in the HTML code. The 3D scene and the user interaction can be easily configured using a simple “declarative programming” approach, and by a series of provided JavaScript functions (Retrieved from: http://3dhop.net/).
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Attenni, M., Bartolomei, C., Ippolito, A. (2016). Digital Documentation: Villa Borghese. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48496-9_42
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