Use of Laser-Scanning Analysis in Procedures of Hermeneutic Restoration
Use of Laser-Scanning Analysis in Procedures of Hermeneutic Restoration

Summary/Abstract: State-of-the-art reality-simulating techniques prompt us to think again of the relationship between reality and its representations: therefore, 'virtual realities' as real worlds. Simulation is opposed to representation, to the re-presentation of something 'that has been', because it does not reproduce any accomplished past but goes back to potential events, to possibilities, to something 'that may be'. Computer science is the cultural sphere in which such tangible/intangible, real/unreal binomials can best be perceived; a critical/cognitive exercise that is accomplished in three separate but complementary domains: the aesthetic one; the philological one; the conservation one. Computers and virtual models can be used to place oneself inside as well as outside one and the same field, all at the same time, in a relentless dynamic evolution of the view. The 'virtual restoration' of an image seems to be an ideal tool for combining different ordinary cognitive means: it can actually be used to optimise the understanding of textual information without acting on the 'matter of the work', so that its impact is reversible at all times and in any case.

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