The virtual reconstruction of historical and cultural heritage monuments of the vodyansky settlement

Abstract

The preservation and restoration of historical memorials play very important roles in the formation of a holistic view of material culture and technology level in different society development periods. But material reconstruction of some memorials cannot be realized due to different reasons. In such cases, modern 3D technologies provide a wide range of modeling tools. In this paper we give an example of virtual reconstruction of the cathedral mosque of the Vodyanskoe gorodishche (Vodyansky settlement) using terrain map for building a landscape. We also use the materials of archaeological excavations to create plausible textures for minaret and portal decoration. The modeling is based on reliable data from archaeological reports and on probabilistic data based on the architectural traditions of the region in the same period. The virtual reconstruction was implemented via Blender, an open-source 3D computer graphics software This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (the project "Development of Virtual 3D Reconstruction of Historical Objects Technique", scientific theme code 2019-0920, project number in the research management system FZUU-0633-2020-0004).