Delphi Dancers Column, Temple of Apollo

3D Model

Jean-Luc Martinez, an archaeologist with the Musée du Louvre, asked the INSIGHT team to help document and reconstruct a fragmentary column from the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece. The goal of the reconstruction was to validate Martinez’ hypothesis that the Omphalos (a well-known sculpture meant to mark the ‘center’ of the Hellenic world) once rested atop the dancers’ column. As the column is now in pieces, the INSIGHT team was faced with the (literally) monumental task of capturing dozens of individual fragments while maintaining high detail. Below is an image of the full model:

The INSIGHT data presented here is detailed in a technical paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: A Point-Based Approach for Capture, Display and Illustration of Very Complex Archeological Artefacts (Florent Duguet, George Drettakis, et al). Further details at: www.insightdigital.org