3D reconstruction of saltanat gate in dolmabahce palace

Abstract

This paper presents a project on one of the very significant historical landmarks of Ottoman Culture and the most-visited touristic place in Istanbul, Dolmabahce Palace. In this project, a very famous public symbol gate, Saltanat Gate, is chosen with its historical and complex architecture to be reconstructed in 3D digital format by using various scanning techniques and computer graphics. In this paper, the overall process for 3D reconstruction of the gate is described along with a touch-screen based 3D rendering system. Various techniques are used to capture 3D point clouds from many different angles, to generate detailed surface meshes and to handle technical challenges, such as missing points, high resolution data acquisition and vibration at high positions. © 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.