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Projet de restitution

Project
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Etapes de restitution

L'analyse des sources
La modélisation
Le placement des éclairages
Le placage des textures
La visite interactive

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Objectives

Virtual reconstruction of the Ancient Rome

The three main objectives which inspired the reconstruction of Ancient Rome were:

A scientific objective: to provide a tool for archaeologists, historians and literary persons to distinguish between the different stages of urbanization; to study the monuments' typology and Roman urbanism in general; to find a means of illustrating the hypotheses that were developed regarding the reconstruction of the city... The virtual model of Rome is also inseparable from the research on the history of the real model. Furthermore, the updating of Paul Bigot's work highlights the evolution of archaeological and historical knowledge of Ancient Rome.

An educational objective: to provide students and secondary school pupils with a vivid illustration of Ancient Rome and an example of ancient urban reality that is easily visualized on screen.

A communicative objective: the interactive visit of the model attracts a lot of people because it offers many possibilities: walking down the streets, entering the buildings, observing the interior decoration, flying over different districts. The visit to the site is enhanced by the production of CD-ROM and video cassettes.

The virtual reconstruction of Paul Bigot's Scale Model of Rome is a multidisciplinary and long-term project. It brings together, at the MRSH, researchers and technicians who have different capabilities and specialities but who work together with the same objective.