Church of Panagia Acheiropiitos - St. Paraskevi chapel (Basilica’s baptistery) (3D)
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This is a 3D model at various resolutions (ultra low, low, medium, high, RAW) of a proktisma, attached to the south side of the church of Panagia Acheiropiitos,. Today, this is a chapel dedicated to St. Paraskevi. At first, scholars identified it as the basilica’s baptistery, while more recent studies identify it as the church’s diaconicon. Originally it must have had mosaic ornamentation to a great extent, as a preserved fragment indicates.
The church of Panagia Acheiropiitos, a UNESCO World Heritage Monument, is located on Hagias Sofias Street, in the central part of the “intra muros” city of Thessaloniki. The church lies north of the main city road, the Byzantine Leoforos (Egnatia Street today), and very close to it.
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Source | Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) ) |
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Actor | Athanasios Tsaouselis, External Research Assistant |
Actor | Christodoulos Chamzas, Professor |
Actor | Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member |
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Europeana Rights |
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Start Date | 0450-01-01 |
End Date | 0475-01-01 |
Period Name | Early Byzantine Era |
Materials | brick, pantile, mortar, stone |
Provenace | The 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities refers to all matters concerning the safeguard and protection, the conservation, the reconstruction, the study and the publication of the monument. |
Heritage Asset Type | Late Byzantine, Monasteries, Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία, Architecture, Orthodox Church, Christianity, Byzantine, Χριστιανισμός, Monastery, Katholika, Oriental Orthodox, Βαπτιστήρι, Churches, UNESCO, Baptistiri, Ιερός Ναός, Monuments, Θεσσαλονίκη, Katholika, Αχειροποίητος |
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Name | Digitisation of the Church of Panagia Acheiropiitos |
Purpose | To create a 3D digital replica of the monument |
Techinques | 3D Data Types Transformation,Data Processing |
Equipment | Custom Camera Monopods,Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1),20-50mm lens,Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras,PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit,Blender,Manfrotto Camera tripods,Fixed 16mm lens,Meshlab (version 1.3.2),A custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS |
Actor | Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member |
Actor | Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator |
Actor | Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member |
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Name | Generation of purpose specific 3D models based on the raw 3D data of the Church of Panagia Acheiropiitos |
Description | Decimated (simplified in terms of geometry and texture map resolution) versions of the primary 3D model (raw data) has been created in order to allow the visualisation of different quality versions of the 3D digital replica on various platforms. Low Resolution Model: 75K Facets - Image Texture Size:1024^2 Medium Resolution Model: 250K Facets - Image Texture Size:4096^2 High Resolution Model: 1M Facets - Image Texture Size:8192^2 |
Purpose | To provide a 3D model that meets different devices hardware specifications |
Techinques | 3D Data Types Transformation,Data Processing,Data Processing |
Equipment | Custom Camera Monopods,Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1),20-50mm lens,Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras,PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit,Blender,Manfrotto Camera tripods,Fixed 16mm lens,Meshlab (version 1.3.2),A custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS,PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit,Meshlab (version 1.3.2),Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1) |
Actor | Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member |
Actor | Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member |
Actor | Athanasios Tsaouselis, External Research Assistant |