monastery made the building seem realistic (Ozaslan and Seker, 
2001). 
After creating 3D model and stacking photos on the building, 
the last step was rendering (Fig. 3). Rendering a scene or 
scenes (animation) by using 3D StudioMAX is possible. It is 
possible to export the project into file formats jpg, bmp, eps, tif 
or into video formats mov, avi, by using 3D StudioMAX's 
render editor. In this project lots of scenes were rendered into 
bmp format and a short animation in avi format was created as 
an example. 
  
Figure 3. 3D textured model of the monastery of Christ 
Pantepoptes (Eski Imaret-i Atik Cami) in 3D Studio MAX. 
  
Figure 4. 3D textured model of the monastery of Christ 
Pantepoptes (Eski Imaret-i Atik Cami) in AutoCAD. 
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XXXV, Part B5. Istanbul 2004 
  
Figure 5. 3D model of the monastery of Christ Pantepoptes 
(Eski Imaret-i Atik Cami) in ArcView. 
In this project 3D textured model was also created in AutoCAD 
and in Arc View environment (Fig. 4 and Fig. 5). 
4.2 GIS 
GIS is an important tool for urban planning. GIS includes 
software and hardware tools, and a group of procedures 
elaborated to facilitate the capture, edition, administration, 
manipulation, analysis, modelling, representation and the exit of 
spatial referenced and semantic data, to solve any type of 
planning, administration, storage, and further information 
concerning the problem. GIS technology greatly facilitates the 
inventory, evaluation, preservation, and documentation of 
archaeological sites and historical structures. As heritage 
conservation becomes more holistic and historic sites are 
steadily becoming integrated with the surrounding landscapes, 
GIS has been recognized as a critical component in the 
development of virtual historic collections and archives. 
The package we use here is Arc View which is amongst the 
most popular and flexible GIS software. We have two kinds of 
databases: the one who has the graphical and geometrical data 
and the one who has the alphanumeric data related to the 
graphical data. The first one will be generated from the 
photogrametric digital system or from other graphical external 
files (like digitized plans, amateur photographs etc.). The 
second one will be handled with the DBMS ACCESS. Both 
databases will be linked and managed together by the GIS 
software Arc View 3.2, creating the information system. 
Objects are being built by linking spatial data (point, lines or 
polygons that are defined by geometry and topology) with non- 
graphic information in GIS. Coverage, also called as layer, is 
the basic unit of storage in Arc/Info. In this study Arc/Info has 
been used for the establishment of topology of the coverage. 
Then the coverage has been imported to Arc View software. 
This software has been produced as a vector based GIS but also 
it has limited use of raster base data as well. In addition to 
    
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