Prometheus: From 2D to 3D. A reconstruction based on photographs.

On January 10th 2012 the statue of Prometheus, standing in front of the Aula, was stolen from the TU Delft. This statue was made specially for the TU Delft for its 100th anniversary in 1953. This thesis aims to reconstruct a digital 3d model of the stolen statue of Prometheus. We do this based on a set of photographs of the statue that were...

Automation in Architectural Photogrammetry: Line-Photogrammetry for the Reconstruction from Single and Multiple Images

Architectural photogrammetry has been practised for more than a century for the documentation of cultural heritage. Nowadays, the emphasis is on the construction of computer models for virtual reality applications. Since the introduction of the computer, and later the digital camera, research in photogrammetry aims at automation. This thesis...