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precisely of the castle of Mirandola a
Royal archaeological route and a
attempt to virtual path
through the hills of the val di merse
the castle of milan duolo is a
medieval settlement that then
turns into a castle and an excavation
started in 2001 and continued until
2016 now we are starting to
design the whole phase of
enhancement of the context where it is
located in val di merse in the municipality of
chiusdino in a wonderful landscape
it’s a very difficult site
reachable but close to a point
very important from the point of view
tourist
or san galgano the abbey of san
galgano and montesiepi with its famous
sword in the rock is located at one
fifty kilometers from siena
precisely in the municipality of giustino but more
near the provincial border then
under the cicciano and montieri the foundation
of the settlement is dated in the course
of the seventh century and is linked to one
mining exploitation therefore for the
metallurgical resource extraction of iron
during the eighth century, yes
turns into an agricultural village with
two distinct foley of power that
basically they were functional
conservation and accumulation of foodstuffs
food a big change
will happen during the ix century with the
foundation of the multiss in which we say
it is detached from the main settlement
a well-defined area that among other things is
the highest of the hill where the
power is barrea and defends itself
from the outside by building a large one
moat and raising a fence
within this palisade itself
retain
those that are the most resources
important food but also iron and
all the wealth in the course
of the eleventh century
the site turns into a castle
so you start building in stone
a palace is built for a tower
where we say it was the residence
stately the church in stone and then
it is destroyed by the bishop of Volterra
between 1100 25 and 1.133 after which the
milan duolo’s story begins a slow one
escalation until abandonment
the excavation represented a moment
important of applied informatics
to archeology because from the first
moment we had one
experimentation of all software and
all applications to analyze and
disseminate data gis webgis database
alphanumeric photographic website
precisely to disseminate the data is
clearly one of the first pages of
facebook in particular, however, we are there
distinguished for the use of the laser
scanners and we have realized since 2004 e
the 2011 scan on almost the whole
hill where we had dug up to that
moment the real problem for contexts
stratigraphic as it may be
an archaeological excavation is that the laser
scanner generates too much information
billions of points but they have the
they basically also become
so redundant that and we have
thought is that perhaps photogrammetry
it was the element that was used more for
our case the origin of the
photogrammetry photogrammetry is born
from an application of stereoscopy is
a discovery theory in the nineteenth century and
a technique to realize the vision of
images and convey a feeling of
three-dimensionality and the source
the binocular view is inspiring
basically our eyes being
in two distinct positions they see the
objects in two different ways but what
see the eyes is not what succeeds
to process our brain and the
our brain gives us the illusion
feeling of seeing one
three-dimensional even where the eye
the single eye fails to
perceive the photogrammetry precisely
they are software that they do exactly
this takes a whole series of
many images around an object and
through in processing one
computer processing is successful
reconstruct a three-dimensional model
how does the software substantially that
It is very automated it manages to
recognize the various points of the object
then analyze frame for
frame and place them in space
both the objects and the points we see
both the position of the machine
photographically builds a cloud first
of points then all these points
individual then compose the second object
phase
triangulation of these points for
build a third phase surface
spread over this surface to us
we have a three-dimensional photograph
one of the projects that I think
and it went a lot in the direction that we
we want to travel was wastewater
web or should have been this project
substantially an enhancement of the
promotion through the creation of a
tourist route of the network
medieval water of Siena precisely i
booties then as was the process
the process was to scan
three-dimensionally by laser
scanner and photogrammetry these tunnels
and get them to travel to the surface from
from tourists through a mobile app i
fundamental elements of this project
and that I think they were definitely
avant-garde and worth it
to underline are four
substantially an enhancement of
peripheral paths within the
cities outside the places that all of us
we know and which are the two poles
main attraction points on stadiums
evening or the cathedral and piazza del campo
an enhancement of these assets
architectural and historical architectural
the abatement of aid for i
disabled people to succeed
travel these tunnels in some
so naturally they can not be
frequented and can be attended
also little by tourists
in short and then especially one
appreciation a sensitive
awareness of the themes of water
that in a city like Siena where not
there was no direct access to the sources
water was extremely important
so let’s just say the project yes
substantiated by the construction of these
models if dimensional is a
application that made you to run
on the current roads of Siena
path of these of these loot from the
from sources to the suburbs
basically so this is a bit
it was also a point of
departure and a best practice for us the
work that even in these days e
we are just doing is bringing the
three-dimensional relief must be a
po the flywheel for the enhancement
of the site
so we are taking pictures of
all the objects up the palaces walls
houses etcetera etcetera to rebuild i
three-dimensional models
besides this we are doing flights
above the hill with a drone to have
the digital model of the terrain and therefore
the state the current state of the whole
hill precisely through the reaction
before a new cloud of points then
of a match and finally of a texture
photo of an image point if
dimensional that c
this can be offered to us
result
what is important besides
to the aspect of the relief of fersen is that
in reality it is this
this is this software these these
applications can be the basis of
departure for model building
of models interpreted in some way
then of three-dimensional reconstructions
because one of the great problems
of archeology in general
now overcoming we are a little easier
because we have big walls we have
the walls wear her furiously
so let’s say the perception of the tourist
somehow manages to seize the
greatness of the structures but in many
other contexts
this thing escapes we can not
understand why we often have in it too
earth and so it is very much
imperceptible instead through the
reconstructions we can transmit to
visitor however the feeling of
what was to be the settlement
in life of what
we have excavated what we do
we understand and what we do
we have identified basically it is
an experience but it does not have to be
the final experience because we are here
I realized this a bit at the university
after the first the enthusiasm of the
three-dimensional 3d graphics yes
realized that it is actually
a very good impacting experience but
which has the physical limit of diverging
From reality
that is, if it reaches a certain point where
you prefer to look at the 3d model not
visit the archaeological site the
monument because as much as it says but me
I look at it at the computer and I do not have any
kind of problem is actually a way
to dissociate reality and say aspects
virtual
a solution could be that of
to realize real and virtual paths
together the tool we thought
and what we say is a lot
used in this period is the
virtual reality is a viewer that you
puts before his eyes in his
more generation in its application
simpler and with a cell phone that you
that s puts just inside of
this mask I turning the head to
360 degrees that you can see the environment
around you as if it were positioned
inside the monument or the excavation
archaeological and look at all that
you have
let’s just say around you that you can
see then you can see through
also maybe some reconstructions this
it’s a way to be to merge
together the two realities is a bit that
that they are trying to do for example
Rome at the Colosseum in which there are gods
precise points where you can
wear the mask and then see
that what you see even without the
too mask the mask the see
then rebuilt when the colosseum
he was alive so a feeling is in
some way that blends the two realities
that manages to enhance the result of
all the historical process that has brought
to the discovery of archaeologists but also
all the historical process of life
of the monument and
Item
all this consider that it has gods
relatively low costs and this is
a very important thing too
because we say what we want to do
is developing new economic paths and
new spaces for research
I believe that archaeological research development
informed or should go in
direction to favor
fruition research but above the communities
and territories but above all a development
economic that passes through institutions
public that are often owners of the
private company assets and we say it
entrepreneurs cultural operators who
can collaborate within the
construction of these new areas of
these archaeological parks but also
also other development of monuments
etc. and so on
why the real challenge is not
to create a beautiful model
three-dimensional or relief
photogrammetric what we must
to do is to demonstrate to Julio Tremonti and to
baracco but obama just to mention two that
they uttered these words that we
or with culture we do not want to eat
we want to develop the Italian pil
this is the real challenge because
the opportunity there is one above all is
the art bonus that somehow
therefore we know an important challenge
a decisive challenge for the country is
a game where Italy must invest and
that can win but the big risk is
that here or you win or die
Thanks for the attention
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