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1Bernard Frischer, Director, IATH
Rome Reborn 1.0: A Report on the Rome Reborn
Project, 1997-2007
E-Culture Session
January 23, 2008
• Overview– History of IATH
• Established in 1992 with a major IBM grant
• Overview– History of IATH
• Established in 1992 with a major IBM grant
•Mission:“... IATH's goal is to explore and expand the
potential of information technology as a tool for
humanities research. To that end, we provide our
Fellows with consulting, technical support,
applications programming, and networked
publishing facilities..”
ROME REBORN 1.0:
A New Digital Model of
Ancient Rome
Created by
UCLA
University of VirginiaPolitecnico di Milano
and an
International Scientific Advisory Committee
Background
of Rome
model
• Project started by CVRLab at UCLA in 1997
Background
of Rome
model
• Project started by CVRLab at UCLA in 1997 – Institutionally sponsored by UCLA, University of
Virginia, and the Politecnico di Milano
Background
of Rome
model
• Project started by CVRLab at UCLA in 1997 – Institutionally sponsored by UCLA, University of
Virginia, and the Politecnico di Milano
– Created by an international scientific committee
with members from
• the Universities of Florence, Lecce, and Rome
• The American Academy in Rome, the British
School in Rome, German Archaeological
Institute
Background
of Rome
model
• Project started by CVRLab at UCLA in 1997
– Institutionally sponsored by UCLA, University of Virginia, and the Politecnico di Milano
– Created by an international scientific committee with members from
• the Universities of Florence, Lecce, and Rome
• The American Academy in Rome, the British School in Rome, German Archaeological Institute
– Version 1.0 launched by Rome’s Mayor Walter Veltroni at press conference on June 11, 2007
Why make
models?
• Facilitating understanding
• Promoting the perception of emergent
properties that were not anticipated
• Highlighting problems in the quality of
the data
• Facilitating hypothesis formation
Types
of
models
•Modeling methodologies
•Hand modeling
Types
of
models
•Modeling methodologies
•Hand modeling
•Scan modeling
3D Scan of David’s
Left Eyeball
Types
of
models
•Modeling methodologies
•Hand modeling
•Scan modeling
•Hybrid
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
Senate House,
Rome (interior)
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
Arch of
Septimius Severus,Rome
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
•Williamsburg: Douglass Theater
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
•Williamsburg: Douglass Theater
•Jabrin Fort
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
•Dynamic, real-time experience
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
•Dynamic, real-time experience
•Panoramic photo (fixed point)
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
•Dynamic, real-time experience
•Panoramic photo (fixed point)
•Navigation through scene (no fixed point)
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
•Dynamic, real-time experience
•Panoramic photo (fixed point)
•Navigation through scene (no fixed point)
•Statue: Michelangelo
Ways
to
output
models
•Still image
•Pre-rendered video
•Dynamic, real-time experience
•Panoramic photo (fixed point)
•Navigation through scene (no fixed point)
•Statue: Michelangelo
•City: Rome model
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
SeptizodiumMartin van Heemskerck,
ca. 1535
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
Temple of Castor and PolluxRodolfo Lanciani, 1910
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
• Archaeology
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
• Archaeology
Roman Forum, ca. 1770G.B. Piranesi
Basis of the reconstruction
• Texts (e.g., Regionary catalogues)
• Images (e.g., Forma urbis; vedute; early
photographs
• Archaeology
Roman Forum, 2005
Basis of the reconstruction
• Two classes of monument
– Class I:
• Location and design known in detail;
• can be modeled at 1:1 scale
– Class II:
• Known only as to district of city and building type;
• can be modeled schematically
• The basic idea:
– Class I: hand-model 31 of the ca. 250 buildings in the city for which we have detailed information
– Class II: Digitize and correct the best 20th
century physical model, the Plastico di Roma antica (1933-1973), made at scale of 1:250
– Georeference the hydrid born and reborn digital model
Scanner: MetricVision LR 200 (Leica, Metris); work
done by Tommaso Grasso under scientific super-
vision of Gabriele Guidi (UniFi; Politecnico di Milano)
Prof. Gabriele Guidi, INDACO,
Politecnico di Milano
First results
First results
First results
J. Donno “Ricostruzione digitale di manufatti di grandi dimensioni ad elevato livello di
dettaglio. Studio metodologico e rappresentazione del plastico di Roma Costantiniana,”
Master Thesis, Supervisors: G. Guidi, M. Russo, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 2006.
Class II
Class I
Elements of the new digital model
Metadata &
archaeological
documentation
+
Elements of the new digital model
Class I: 31 Born Digital models:
Arch of ConstantineArch of Titus Basilica of
MaxentiusColosseum (with hypogeum)
Forum of Julius CaesarForum Romanum
Ludus Magnus
Meta SudansSeptizodium
TabulariumTemple of Venus and Rome
Class II: Digitally reborn & corrected
“Plastico di Roma antica”
Next steps
Next steps
• Add more Class I buildings
Next steps
• Add more Class I buildings
• Proceduralize all Class II buildings
Next steps
• Add more Class I buildings
• Proceduralize all Class II buildings
• Adopt real-time lighting solution
Next steps
• Add more Class I buildings
• Proceduralize all Class II buildings
• Adopt real-time lighting solution
• Add people and their activities
Next steps
• Add more Class I buildings
• Proceduralize all Class II buildings
• Adopt real-time lighting solution
• Add people and their activities
• Solve problem of running model interactively in real time on the
Internet
Bernard Frischer, Director
I A T H 319 Alderman Library
University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA, USA 22904-4115
Cell: +1-310-266-0183