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Stuttgard, Germany, Jun 9, 2015 \/ 03:55 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- For fans of Church history and architecture, 3D imaging may be the second-best thing to time travel, allowing them to experience a medieval church as it existed hundreds of years ago.<\/p>\n

\tUsers of a soon-to-be launched website and app will be able to harness modern technology to see architecture that existed centuries ago.<\/p>\n

\tThe technology was presented at a recent international conference in Germany. On display was a 3D model of the cathedral of Sessa Aurunca, a town north of Naples.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOur main goal was to make the beauty and the heritage of the Church in Italy known, on a hyper-modern and multi-media platform,\u201d said architect Danilo Prosperi, scientific director of the endeavor.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOur project consists of a full 3D model of the Church from the inside and outside, and a reconstruction of the same edifice as it would have been in the Middle Ages,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\tProsperi and his team combined research on medieval churches throughout all of Italy to collect data, which was later used to reconstruct the church\u2019s structure before it was refurbished in the 17th century in Baroque style.<\/p>\n

\tMany Italian churches underwent a restoration and partial reconstruction during the period after the Council of Trent in the 16th century, commonly known as the \u201cBaroque\u201d era.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe most interesting part of our research was to re-construct the old elements of the church: the ceiling with its wooden beams, the windows of the main nave, which were later walled in, the relocation of the ambo to its original place, as well as the modulation of the Iconostasis, the choir and the ciborium,\u201d Prosperi explained.<\/p>\n

\tInformation came from the museum of the diocese and historical texts.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe diocesan museum holds marble slaps and pieces of the original structures, which were photographed, scanned and later incorporated into the church to re-create the feeling of the \u2018original\u2019 medieval structure,\u201d Prosperi explained.<\/p>\n

\tThe 3D technology allows for modification of the original structure and interaction with the stone model, which would be impossible with mere photographs, he said.<\/p>\n

\tAs a result, the tourist or visitor is able to see the original model of the church in an interactive way.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe have created two primary interactive products: the virtual tour within the ancient church and an app,\u201d the director said.<\/p>\n

\tThe application, he continued, \u201cenables you to visit the ancient church by standing physically inside the new church. To do so, you access the app of the tablet or of the smartphone, which projects the 3D model onto the existing surface. The portable device turns into a kind of \u2018window to the past\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe tourist stands in the real church, which merges with the virtual church to create an \u201caugmented reality tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tProsperi explained the motivation behind the endeavor: \u201cthe diocese of Sessa Aurunca, along with the bishop, asked us to work on this project, in order to make his cathedral known to a vast public, since it is a zone highly frequented by tourists, who mostly are still ignorant of the beautiful cathedral.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe church is in fact a small copy of the Benedictine Monastery Montecassino, one of the most important and oldest monasteries in Italy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tAfter seeing the outcome of the cathedral project, the Italian city quickly took interest.<\/p>\n

\tThe city of Sessa Aurunca\u2019s cultural department \u201capproached us and asked to apply the same 3D modelling to an ancient Roman amphitheater, an ancient Roman bridge and the Duke\u2019s palace,\u201d Prosperi said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt was mostly the multi-media approach that convinced them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\tIn September 2015, a website will be launched in Italian and English containing all the fruits of the past year\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe have also planned to present a 3D print-out of the ambo and other parts of the church,\u201d Prosperi said. \u201cIt is overall very engaging research that combines the ancient beauty of architecture and art with hyper modern usage of technology at our hands.\u201d
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