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Digital restoration in Keys2Rome
Daniel Pletinckx
Visual Dimension bvba Belgium
V-MUST is funded by the European Commission under the Community's Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. GA 270404.
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Digital restoration
• Digital restoration is necessary for recontextualisation
• Digital restoration • can go further than physical restoration • can provide hypotheses or multiple alternatives
• can reveal aesthetics or the original object
• Documentation is very similar to virtual reconstruction
• Tools • Digital sculpting
• Restoration of material
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
• Early Christian basilica (5th – 6th century) • Basilica and memoria
• Seat of a bishop • Excavated in 1970s
• Published in 1974, excavation log books available
• Archaeological park • Remains poorly preserved
• Silver & ivory objects disappeared in the 1992-1995 war
• Should be significant community
• Only one house excavated
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Archaeological site of Cim
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Archaeological site of Cim
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Reconstruction drawing from original publication
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
First reconstruction by ETF team
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
First reconstruction by ETF team
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Revised reconstruction by ETF team
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Revised version with terrain
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Revised version with terrain
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Revised version with terrain
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Virtual reconstruction of Cim
Final version in night setting
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Relics found in cache under the altar
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Digitally restored relics from Cim basilica (lost in the 1992-1995 war)
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altar: excavated parts, logbook, reconstruction drawing (excavation publication)
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altar 3D digital restoration
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altarscreen 3D digital restoration - fragments
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altarscreen 3D digital restoration - hypotheses
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altarscreen 3D digital restoration
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altarscreen 3D digital restoration
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Altarscreen 3D digital restoration
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Final visualisation of the interior
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Final visualisation of the interior
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Peacock lintel
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Digital restoration for Cim basilica
Peacock lintel – digital restoration
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K2R in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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K2R in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Greco-Roman Museum - Submerged Antiquities in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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K2R in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Caesarion in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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Digital restoration for BA
Caesarion – digital restoration
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Digital restoration for BA
Caesarion – digital restoration
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Digital restoration for BA
Caesarion – digital restoration
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Digital restoration for BA
Caesarion – digital restoration
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Thank you!
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