5. CONCLUDING REMARKS 
The produced rendered video, which simulates the reality and 
ends the round trip started at the object, has been realised using 
easily accessible instrumentation and low cost commercially 
available software. This enables the easy and fast production of 
similar products. 
Such products inevitably lack high accuracy for the sake of 
realism. This is only natural, as they are not yet mature to serve 
metric purposes. However the fact that accurate orthophotos 
have been used for the rendering improved the ease of this 
procedure, as well as the quality of the final 3D model. 
Ortho images of high quality were used as texturing material. 
This fact helped to achieve high quality of the 3D model before 
the rendering and to reduce the manipulations that were needed 
when an image was layered over a surface (Figure 9). 
  
Figure 9: Orthophotos layered on the surface model 
During the course of this work several by-products were 
produced: The wireframe, the surface and the textured model. 
These models could be used for numerous other purposes, than 
only for suporting the final rendered video. Such uses could be: 
a. Group various elements of the monument (Camara and 
Latorre, 2001) in order to enable further studies 
b. In the same sense project plans may be developed more 
easily based on these models 
c. Furthermore these 3D models may enable the connection to 
a data base, or even a threedimensional GIS in order to 
relate qualitative information to the parts of the monument 
d. In case of a ruined monument, the models and the 
reconstruction may help the users understand the ruins more 
easily (Ito et al. 2002) 
e. Finally these efforts may contribute decisevely towards the 
construction of virtual museums 
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