Digital restoration in the Keys2Rome exhibitions

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.

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

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

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Archaeological site of Cim

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Archaeological site of Cim

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Reconstruction drawing from original publication

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

First reconstruction by ETF team

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

First reconstruction by ETF team

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Revised reconstruction by ETF team

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Revised version with terrain

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Revised version with terrain

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Revised version with terrain

Virtual reconstruction of Cim

Final version in night setting

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Relics found in cache under the altar

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Digitally restored relics from Cim basilica (lost in the 1992-1995 war)

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altar: excavated parts, logbook, reconstruction drawing (excavation publication)

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altar 3D digital restoration

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altarscreen 3D digital restoration - fragments

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altarscreen 3D digital restoration - hypotheses

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altarscreen 3D digital restoration

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altarscreen 3D digital restoration

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Altarscreen 3D digital restoration

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Final visualisation of the interior

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Final visualisation of the interior

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Peacock lintel

Digital restoration for Cim basilica

Peacock lintel – digital restoration

K2R in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

K2R in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Greco-Roman Museum - Submerged Antiquities in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

K2R in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Caesarion in Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Digital restoration for BA

Caesarion – digital restoration

Digital restoration for BA

Caesarion – digital restoration

Digital restoration for BA

Caesarion – digital restoration

Digital restoration for BA

Caesarion – digital restoration

Thank you!

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