Physical and digital city models are idealized and simplified representations of spatial,
social, economic and cultural structures of a city in a certain region for a specific (historical) …

Virtual Leodium is an interdisciplinary project aiming to develop an archaeological
information system based on a city scale model. The first part of the paper describes current …

Current 3D city models are already available for many cities world-wide. However, the
production of historical city models is still in its infancy. In this paper a procedure is …

This article presents the semiautomatic parametric method we have conceived and
developed for the 3D modelling of town parts of physical town scale models. On one hand …

Museums are filled with hidden secrets. One of those secrets lies behind historical mock-ups
whose signification goes far behind a simple representation of a city. We face the challenge …

In this paper, we describe an interactive museum application dedicated to historical scale
models. This comes from a joint work between multidisciplinary teams: industrial …

This article presents two 3D historical enriched models projects; Nantes 1900 and Virtual
Leodium. They are both based on mock-ups realised in the early 20th century. They share …

In this paper we present a research related to the virtualization of an old town scale model.
This is an experimental work that mainly focuses in establishing a valid workflow from data …

Thanks to rapid development of Virtual Reality technologies, the research is not only limited
in military training and scientific visualization realm, it has been expanded into more …

In Museum, many testimonies of our cultural heritage can be found. But because of their
high fragility, the public can not get too close to them. In this communication we will explain a …