Photo-rectification and 3D modelling offers many possibilities for
studying and presenting urban and architectural elements (Fig.1a
and b). New software
and improvement in hardware is continually pushing forward the limits
of performance. Electronic publication of results, on CD-Rom and through
the World Wide Web, allows quick and easy dissemination of the research.
This project aims to develop research in the field of photo-rectification
and 3D modelling for urban and architectural studies. The Kerkenes
Project team has pioneered various techniques of surveying, recording
and analysing urban elements. Recent results have shown that the continually
developing information technology provides numerous tools which the
city planner and the architect can use to study the environment, may
it be historical or contemporary. The project has been focusing on:
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The
use of different techniques of recording and surveying urban and
architectural elements;
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Representation
of data and results in a virtual environment;
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Virtual
reconstitution of the studied urban and architectural elements.
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Traditional
and electronic publication of the results.
In
this final report we have included work done during a period following
the designated project time-table because it seems that some of these
results, which we hope can be published in the near future, should be
disseminated without further delay. The project has been, for both staff
and students, an opportunity to explore the potential of rectification
techniques and 3D modelling. Different approaches were followed and
results assessed. The graphics that were obtained have been included
in reports and publications and, most notably, in the media, coverage
that was generated by the Associate Laureate Rolex Award for Enterprise
won by Geoffrey Summers for the Kerkenes Project. The 3D reconstruction
of the Cappadocia Gate (Fig. 1a)
produced by a 4th year Industrial Design student, Arda Uysal, was published
in the Kerkenes News 2001 and also figures prominently in the Media
pack prepared by Rolex.
