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3D-GIS as a Platform for Visual Analysis : Investigating a Pompeian House

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Summary, in English

The aim of the present work is to introduce an innovative framework for employing 3D-GIS as an exploratory platform to perform visual analysis. Such a methodology is aimed at detecting patterns of visibility to simulate the past human perception of specific categories of artifacts placed inside a virtually reconstructed three-dimensional space. As a case study, the house of Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii (regio V, insula 1, entrances 23 and 26) was chosen and two media of visual communication, a painting and a graffito were tested to make an assessment of their visual impact on hypothetical observers. The approach consists of a vector-based line-of-sight (LOS) analysis, now available as an integral component of the 3D-analyst toolkit of the ESRI ArcGIS 10.x software package. This toolkit allowed us to perform the entire process inside a GIS environment, without splitting the tasks among different software platforms.

It was thus possible to detect a significant difference in terms of visibility among the observed objects.

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

103-113

Publication/Series

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volume

65

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Academic Press

Topic

  • Archaeology

Keywords

  • Visualscape analysis
  • 3D GIS
  • GIS
  • Classical Archaeology
  • Archaeology
  • Digital Archaeology

Status

Published

Project

  • 3D GIS: a Research Platform for the Development of New Research Methodologies for the Documentation and Analysis of Archaeological Sites.
  • Exploring Pompeian Graffiti in 3D Space
  • Space and Movement in a Pompeian house: the contribution of 3D GIS

Research group

  • Updating Pompeii-HT_760
  • Digital Archaeology Laboratory DARK Lab

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1095-9238