Digital Reunification of the Parthenon and its Sculptures

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dc.contributor.authorStumpfel, Jessien_US
dc.contributor.authorTchou, Christopheren_US
dc.contributor.authorYun, Nathanen_US
dc.contributor.authorMartinez, Philippeen_US
dc.contributor.authorHawkins, Timothyen_US
dc.contributor.authorJones, Andrewen_US
dc.contributor.authorEmerson, Brianen_US
dc.contributor.authorDebevec, Paulen_US
dc.contributor.editorDavid Arnold and Alan Chalmers and Franco Niccoluccien_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-31T07:25:07Z
dc.date.available2014-01-31T07:25:07Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.description.abstractThe location, condition, and number of the Parthenon sculptures present a considerable challenge to archeologists and researchers studying this monument. Although the Parthenon proudly stands on the Athenian Acropolis after nearly 2,500 years, many of its sculptures have been damaged or lost. Since the end of the 18th century, its surviving sculptural decorations have been scattered to museums around the world. We propose a strategy for digitally capturing a large number of sculptures while minimizing impact on site and working under time and resource constraints. Our system employs a custom structured light scanner and adapted techniques for organizing, aligning and merging the data. In particular this paper details our effort to digitally record the Parthenon sculpture collection in the Basel Skulpturhalle museum, which exhibits plaster casts of most of the known existing pediments, metopes, and frieze. We demonstrate our results by virtually placing the scanned sculptures on the Parthenon.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationThe 4th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritageen_US
dc.identifier.isbn3-905673-08-8en_US
dc.identifier.issn1811-864Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/VAST/VAST03/041-050en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subject3D scanning, archaeology, reconstruction, sculptures, structured light, Parthenonen_US
dc.titleDigital Reunification of the Parthenon and its Sculpturesen_US
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