A Theory of Artistry for 3D Data Fusion - the element of craft in digital reconstruction

Abstract

The following paper will articulate through an urban renewal proposal project for an area in Montréal, Canada that uses a “3D imaging and modelling protocol” and that accounts for the interaction between mediation and making in digitizing and constructing existing conditions digital artifacts.  The protocol incorporates multi-sensor technologies with modelling and rendering techniques through a process of interpolation between a heterogeneous set of existing photographic, physical, and 2D documentation. The mode of operation implemented is a multi-layered and hybrid approach that recognizes the interplay between human scale and perception, visualization and abstraction of data and geometric accuracy, space and time.