Nooks and Crannies in Visible Cities: 3D Re-imagining Techniques for Archaeology and Architecture in Film Cover Image

Zakamarki (nie)widzialnych miast. Techniki obrazowania 3D na przecięciu archeologii, architektury i filmu
Nooks and Crannies in Visible Cities: 3D Re-imagining Techniques for Archaeology and Architecture in Film

Author(s): Maciej Stasiowski
Subject(s): Archaeology, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Visual Arts, Ancient World, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: 3D scanning;LiDAR;3D visualization;

Summary/Abstract: With the success of the BBC and PBS series such as "Italy’s Invisible Cities" (2017), "Ancient Invisible Cities" (2018), and "Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed" (2016), made in collaboration with ScanLab and employing LiDAR scanning and 3D imaging techniques extensively, popular television programmes grasped the aesthetics of spectral 3D mapping. Visualizing urban topographies previously hidden away from view, these shows put on display technological prowess as means to explore veritably ancient vistas. This article sets out to investigate cinematographic devices and strategies – oscillating between perspectives on built heritage championed by two figures central to the 19th-century discourse on architecture: Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and John Ruskin – manipulating the image in a rivalry for the fullest immersion into a traversable facsimile of past spatialities.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 113
  • Page Range: 169-183
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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