Renderings from 3D Laserscans of artefacts on display at the Limassol, Cyprus Archaeoligical Museum

This project required us to make adjustments to 3D laser scans of archaeological artefacts held at the Limassol Musuem of Archaeology, Cyprus. These scans were to be incorporated into a augmented reality educational application being developed by ARMES. Laser scanners (such as the Minolta VIVID 9i) can create 3D models from real objects. Although they can be extremely accurate, for some complex shapes they leave holes and artefacts that require adjustment with 3D modelling software such as 3DS Max. They can also produce the colour detail of surface but again these are not as good as one would expect.

Here we made adjustments to the 3D model mesh of the scanned objects, recreated surface textures from digital photographs taken at the time of the scans and, in some case, produced reconstructions of the original artefacts according to advice from archaeological experts.