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CG is also a unique technique to present archived digital
images vividly to a large audience. Based on detailed studies
of real materials, CG can enable viewers to compare on a
screen the present situation of cultural heritage site with its
hypothetically-reconstructed image.
The house of Julius Polybius in Pompeii has come to life
again thanks to a long and elaborate process of visual restoration.
To obtain the video, created in its entirety by Altair 4
of Rome, a digital restoration was performed on tens of frescoes,
as well as a virtual reconstruction of all the houses, and
the dynamics of the eruption and its impact on the house
were enhanced.
The complex restoration work has been illustrated with
a three-dimensional technique which leads the user to view
the rooms of the house, in all their details, including the
exact position of every day objects, precisely as they were
found.
The aim of the film is to give the visitor back a house that
is still ‘alive’, just a minute before the catastrophe, and to illustrate
its destruction and rediscovery. This narration can,
therefore, be considered exemplary for the entire ancient
town.
Some rare historical pictures showing the house at the
moment of its rediscovery have been superimposed and
then taken away from the corresponding virtual images: this
leap in time allows for the understanding and confronting of
what has really remained of the house and what has been
virtually reconstructed.