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The Banteay Chhmar temple is one of the most significant Hindu-Buddhist temples of Cambodia, established during the reign of King Jayavarman VII in the second half of the twelfth century dedicating to the king’s son Srindrakumara as reported by (Sanday J (2007) Banteay Chhmar conservation project: proposal for a collaboration between global heritage fund USA with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts Royal Government of Cambodia. The Global Heritage Fund, Paolo Alto). In the course of time, almost every part of Banteay Chhmar temple has been ruined, and it has becomes one of the most mysterious Khmer temples. At the moment the Ministry of Culture of Cambodia is trying to bring together of relevant document of Banteay Chhmar in order to propose the UNESCO to add Banteay Chhmar in its World Heritage list. Since 2008 the Banteay Chhmar Conservation Project team (the Global Heritage Fund) together with the team from the Ministry of Culture have been intensively explored the area and the temple complex of Banteay Chhmar, and achieved considerable results which could be very valuable for the Evaluation. This paper presents some of the results on high level of detail 3D computer reconstruction of Banteay Chhmar temple which has never been generated before with its application for online virtual museum using Google Earth. A data conversion from AutoCAD file format to adapt the requirement of visualization tool is also discussed. Finally we provide a sample of importing the 3D model of the Easter Gopura III of the Banteay Chhmar temple complex to Google Earth.
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The authors would like to express our respect and thankfulness to Dr. Michael Winkler who provides the valuable opportunity for us to conduct this project. We also would like to show deepest gratitude to Dr. Pheakdey Nguonphan who provides us in both, emotional and physical supports. He always provides his high-quality ideas and his important time to help us with this project as well as the techniques and methods for dealing with 3D modeling. We also would like to truthfully appreciate to Prof. Phal Des who always does his best to take a good care of us, provide essential ideas, and strongly encourage us. We would like to show gratefulness to Mr. Var Puthnith Family who sturdily provide their encouragements and teach us about Khmer architecture. Finally, we would like to thank to all people around us who understand our situation and try their best to help us.
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Var, P., Phal, D., Nguonphan, P., Winckler, M.J. (2013). 3D Reconstruction of Banteay Chhmar Temple for Google Earth. In: Bock, H., Jäger, W., Winckler, M. (eds) Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage. Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28021-4_28
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