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 monumental task of capturing dozens of
individual fragments while maintaining exceptionally high detail
in the resulting data. The INSIGHT data presented here is
detailed in a technical paper presented at the 5th International
Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
(K. Cain, Y. Chrysanthou, F. Niccolucci, N. Silberman Editors):
A Point-Based Approach for Capture, Display and Illustration of
Very Complex Archeological Artefacts (Florent Duguet, George
Drettakis, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut, Jean-Luc Martinez, Francis
Schmitt). Guillaume Thibault a