The creation of virtual models of Plans-Reliefs (sometimes called relief maps) is a project to
preserve and to make known masterpieces of European Cultural Heritage. In this paper, we
present the first experiments carried out in the automatic reconstruction of the fortifications
modelled in every plan-relief. Their scale, size and state mean that digitising data alone is
not usable. The study of historical documents like the many treatises of fortification allows us
to fill in the gap by retrieving all the modelling information required in the creation of a library …