Riflessioni sui modelli tridimensionali e sul loro ruolo nel rilevamento

Three-dimensional models, both discrete and continuous, obtained by optical 3D measurement techniques, represents a formidable active instrument able to support new cognitive scenarios. We understand the potentialities of these models in terms both of “expansion of analytical and operational capacity” and “a dynamic interactive visual approach” with the historical building under investigation, or better, with its virtual simulacrum. We refer to the 3D model assimilating it to an envelope formed on the historical building real shapes, which gives geometry and surface appearance and promotes new and extraordinary opportunities in survey. These opportunities amplify themselves considerably if we recognize that the model can become the primary nucleus on which aggregate additional information levels, hierarchically organized forming an articulated structure of different kinds of information and data.