Digitizing Parthenon Frieze

COOPERATION 09SYN-62-629 (I VOTE FOR PARTHENONA)

Digitization, reconstruction, and representation of the Parthenon’s Zoforos and Votives.

Operational program “COOPERATION”, with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and national resources (ERDF 2007 – 2013).

The purpose of the project was the highly accurate digital documentation of the Parthenon Frieze for the first time in its entirety. As part of the project, 3D laser scanning was carried out with a state-of-the-art color handheld scanner at the Acropolis Museum. At the same time, an alternative method of creating 3D models from images was developed and standardized, through algorithms from the field of Computer Vision.

The method developed was successfully applied at the British Museum, enabling 3D modeling of all the stones of the Frieze exhibited in the Parthenon hall, in just 5 days.

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