Refers to the methods of automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering that data directly into computer systems. It’s the process or means of obtaining external data, particularly through analysis of images, sounds or videos. To capture data, a transducer is employed which converts, in the case of architectural survey, the actual image or the coordinates of points in space into a digital file. The file is then stored and at a later time it can be analyzed by a computer, or compared with other files in a database.
Published in Chapter:
A Virtual Journey through 2D and 3D Elaborations Recorded with Range-Based and Image-Based Method: The Experience of Vitelleschi Palace in Tarquinia
Mariella La Mantia (La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 47
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8379-2.ch021
Abstract
The aim of this study is to define a virtual journey into the vast repertoire of images and representations realized as a result of the measuring operations of the Vitelleschi Palace. The chapter will provide detailed informations about the history of the Palace, together with a deep investigation of its building phases, conducted through both the analysis of historical graphic documentation and the performing of a new architectural survey. The field of architectural survey, in recent decades, has undergone profound transformations made possible by the introduction and establishment of new instruments that have sped up the acquisition times and increased the amount of data collected with a high automation of measuring operations. The centuries-old building, product of many stratifications that occurred over time, are the examples that best of all offer themselves to these procedures of investigation. In this sense, the Vitelleschi Palace, authentic architectural masterpiece whose facades witness the period of transition between different architectural addresses, is a landmark case.