RECONSTRUCTION OF THE STADION AREA OF ANCIENT MESSENE USING 3D COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ANALYSIS OF ITS TOWNSCAPE

摘要

The use of three dimensional computer graphics (3D CG) is now becoming more and more popular, because it often visualizes objects more comprehensively than real ones. Concerning classical architecture and archaeology, sites are usually in ruin and excavated buildings are in demolished condition down to the foundation. Thus, it is hard not only for specialists but also for general people to have vivid images of how they looked like in antiquity without help of reconstructed drawings. 3D CG has drawn strong public attention during recent years for this purpose, and the authors tried to reconstruct the buildings of the stadion area of ancient Messene, a Hellenistic town of Greece, in 3D CG and showed here the results of the reconstruction and townscape analysis.