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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

bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com