Capture and Processing of High Resolution 3D-Data of Sutra Inscriptions in China

Modern high resolution 3D-measuring techniques are widely used in quality control and industrial production, because they allow precise and reliable inspection of objects. Their potential to monitor surfaces, however, must not be restricted to industrial objects. Also in cultural heritage applications a detailed and reliable spatial description of surfaces is often useful and opens up new possibilities for conservation, analysis or presentation of objects. In the actual work we have considered Buddhistic stone inscriptions (8th12th centuries) which are important cultural assets of China. They need to be documented, analyzed, interpreted and visualized archaeologically, arthistorically and text-scientifically. On one hand such buddhistic stone inscriptions have to be conserved for future generations but on the other hand further possibilities for analyzing the data could be enabled when the inscriptions would be accessible to a larger community, for instance the understanding of the his...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: EUROMED
• Authors: Natalie Schmidt, Frank Boochs, Rainer Schütze
• Keywords: Buddhistic Stone Inscriptions, Electronic Publishing, EUROMED 2010, Optimization, Reliable Spatial Description, Stone Inscriptions