About Ogham in 3d
The Dingle Peninsula has one of the greatest concentrations of surviving archaeological monuments in the country. In 2015, Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne, The Discovery Programme and the Ogham in 3D project initiated a community project, to help train volunteers to capture archaeological monuments in 3d, using a technique called ‘Structure from Motion’. With a team of interested volunteers, training sessions took place in the spring of 2016, and the project began. The project base was in Museum chorca Dhuibhne in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Ballyferriter), coordinated by local archaeologist and curator Isabel Bennet.
For more information on these organisations and programmes, clink on the links in the 'Further Information' section
Aims
The aim of the current project ‘Corca Dhuibhne 3d’ is to record as many carved stone monuments (ogham stones, rock art, cross slabs etc). Creating 3d models allows marks and carvings not always detectable by the human eye and under normal light, to be detected and analysed. Already new discoveries have been made.
Technology:
Structure from motion (SfM) is the process of estimating the 3-D structure of a scene from a set of 2-D images (photos). A large number of photos are taken and then processed using Agisoft PhotoScan (commonly known as PhotoScan).
Agisoft is a professional tool for a photogrammetry pipeline. It performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data. Agisoft Photoscan is the dominant photogrammetric software on the market, being used by a range of professions, from archaeology, cartographers to creators of virtual worlds and game developers.
Sketchfab is the world's largest platform to publish, share, and discover 3D content on web, mobile, AR, and VR. All the 3d scans from Corca Dhuibhne 3d are being shared on Sketchfab through 2 channels. The Discovery Programme channel, and through a new channel here