id
	14126
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/14126
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	3D-GIS as a Platform for Visual Analysis: Investigating a Pompeian House
Creator
	Landeschi, Giacomo
	Dell'Unto, Nicolo
	Lundqvist, Karin
	Ferdani, Daniele
	Campanaro, Danilo Marco
	Leander Touati, Anne-Marie
Date
	2016
Language
	eng
Abstract
	The aim of the present work is to introduce an innovative framework for employing 3D-GIS as an exploratory platform to perform visual analysis. Such a methodology is aimed at detecting patterns of visibility to simulate the past human perception of specific categories of artifacts placed inside a virtually reconstructed three-dimensional space. As a case study, the house of Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii (regio V, insula 1, entrances 23 and 26) was chosen and two media of visual communication, a painting and a graffito were tested to make an assessment of their visual impact on hypothetical observers. The approach consists of a vector-based line-of-sight (LOS) analysis, now available as an integral component of the 3D-analyst toolkit of the ESRI ArcGIS 10.x software package. This toolkit allowed us to perform the entire process inside a GIS environment, without splitting the tasks among different software platforms. It was thus possible to detect a significant difference in terms of visibility among the observed objects.
Is Part Of
	Journal of Archaeological Science
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.11.002
Issn
	1095-9238
Pages
	103-113
Volume
	65
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/9ICND9P2/item-list

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