Abstract
The development of different types of digital representations has shifted the designer’s attention from the morphological description of the object to the associative relationships of the parts that compose it. The integration between different models has therefore become a central and critical activity. It is precisely in the integrated and simultaneous reading of ideal models of digital form that the contribution to the knowledge and transmission of a cultural asset could be provided. The present essay proposes a critical analysis of the use of generative procedural models applied to the digital representation of cultural heritage to analyze the potential of procedural models for integration with qualitatively different models. The proposed case study is the Arch of Titus in Rome, characterized by a strong sculptural and architectural value. For this reason, it appeared to be a particularly significant case study for developing an experimental investigation about integrated digital modeling.
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Interrogation, processing, simulation and representation.
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The generative parametric modeling tools are considered indirect because the operator does not work directly in contact with the geometry in the virtual three-dimensional space. He works only indirectly, adding and modifying function nodes within the graph that describes the genesis of model. The definition in the form of a graph also makes the genesis particularly structured and logically sequential.
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Authors shared all methodology and contents of the research. Both they focused the necessity of integrating the information of the ideal, adaptive and real models. In particular, Leonardo Baglioni surveyed and prepared the models used for experimental testing; Graziano Mario Valenti developed the procedure as a prototype and tested it on the experimental models. From a strictly editorial point of view, Leonardo Baglioni edited the paragraphs entitled “Survey models for architecture”, “Hierarchies and semantic quality in the digital model”, “A generative parametric model for the Arch of Titus”, including the abstract; Graziano Mario Valenti edited the paragraphs entitled: “The architecture survey between knowledge and measurement”, “Generative modeling as an aid for the identification of the ideal model”, “Generative modeling as an aid to define the semantic structure of the model” including the “Application results, evaluation of methodology and future work”.
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Valenti, G.M., Baglioni, L. (2020). Semantic and Procedural Approaches in Generative Modeling for the Representation of Cultural Heritage. In: Di Nicolantonio, M., Rossi, E., Alexander, T. (eds) Advances in Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 975. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20216-3_22
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