3D SCANNING

The Episcopal Palace Ensemble

Curtea de Arges

episcopal palace of

curtea de arges

The Argeș Monastery ensemble is one of the most appreciated Romanian feudal monuments, both in the country and abroad. Founded by the lord of Wallachia Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521), Curtea de Argeș Monastery is a masterpiece of medieval architecture, but also one of the most valuable constructions of church architecture in Romania. The royal monastery of Argeş was built at the beginning of the 16th century, on the site of an older monastery, by the ruler Neagoe Basarab. The attention of the new ruler, a descendant of the Craiova boyar family, turned to the "seat of the Bessarabians" with the probable purpose of strengthening his connection with the old ruling family. Simultaneously with the relocation of the headquarters of the Metropolitan Church of Ungrovlahia from "our fortress" Argeş, as the settlement was called, in Târgovişte, the princely monastery remained with the rank of "chinovie of monks", but was raised to the rank of archimandrite.

Out of the need to preserve and capitalize on the whole Argeș Monastery, a place full of history, traditions and legends, the Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel started in 2016 a large project to consolidate, restore and capitalize on tourism. In 2017, the financing was obtained for the implementation of the project << Restoration, consolidation and enhancement of the Ensemble of the Episcopal Palace from Curtea de Argeș, of the annex buildings, of the wooden church “Entrance to the Church of the Mother of God”, of the precinct wall , of external networks and construction of information point ”.

After the completion of the restoration project, the episcopal ensemble was digitized by 3D scanning.

3D scanning

equipment used

3d scanning

PROJECT FEATURES

Objectives

  • Episcopal palace
  • The wooden church
  • Annex constructions
  • Information Center
  • Enclosure wall



Surface

The five objectives of the episcopal ensemble Curtea de Argeș monastery included in this 3D scanning digitization project have an area of over 15500sqm.



3D scanning stations

This project required 1250 RGB 3D scanning stations made at medium (6mm @ 10m) and high (3mm @ 10m) resolution. The final network consists of over 3500 links.



3D scanning

POINT CLOUD fly through

The point clouds resulting from the 3D scanning process were recorded and georeferenced in Romanian national projection system - Stereographic 1970, Black Sea 1975 level reference plan.

After the registration and georeferencing process, the resulting final point cloud was cleaned of noise, decimated to a density of 3 mm and exported in .e57 format.

The point cloud fly through was made using specialized rendering software. The point cloud is presented in the RGB colors captured by the scanner but also in the Xray version.

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VIRTUAL tour

The photos taken by the scanner (12MP x 3 x 5 HDR exposures) are composed in the import process to generate 360 HDR panoramas in equirectangular projection. The panoramas were composed to generate the virtual tour of the digitized objectives.

You can navigate the virtual tour with the mouse in any direction. By clicking on the hot spots in the image you can move to another position. You can use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out on the image.

ACCESS THE VIRTUAL TOUR

Virtual Tour
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the point cloud

The decimated point cloud is available for viewing. By accessing this platform you can view the entire point cloud or just one of the objectives, you can take measurements and even section the point cloud.

Note that the point cloud available for viewing is not at native resolution, it is strongly decimated so that it can be made available for viewing on the internet.


ACCESS POINT CLOUD

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