Section Views from 3D Laser-Scanned Models

The building of structures is a field within engineering and architecture that has provided civilians with shelter for certain purposes for many generations. These shelters vary such as houses, mosques, pyramids, city halls, and more. These structures are built from plans/blueprints usually drawn up by architects then engineers build the structure. In the past, the plans were drawn informally relative to the present or not at all, and they went directly into the building process. In the present, we require drawings or images of the structures built in the past for referencing or studying. This is where the Zamani Project, using three-dimensional laser-scanning of the structure into models that can be referenced. Laser scanning is a technique used by the Zamani Project to model three-dimensional images of heritage sites around Africa and some in Eurasia. These heritage sites include Castle of Good Hope, Wonderwerk Cave, a Great Zimbabwe complex, and many more. The Zamani Project uses these laser-scanned images to preserve heritage sites because the sites over time deteriorate and, historians and other professions need to study/alter these structures

Project Goals

• to produce a tool for the creation of layouts/diagrams of sections, elevations, top views, and ground plans, and other generic views from 3D laser scanned models
• to produce a tool to extract feature lines from 3D models and 3D slicing through the models