The Three-Dimensional Model as a ‘Scientific Fact’

The Scientific Methodology in Hypothetical Reconstruction

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ID13126124
AuthorsFabrizio Ivan Apollonio (0000-0001-5186-1378, University of Bologna, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume7
Issue10
Pages5413-5427
Publication date2024-09-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHeritage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2571-9408 • E-ISSN: 2571-9408
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/heritage7100255
OpenAlexW4402985761
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited39

For more than thirty years, 3D digital modelling has been used more and more widely as a research tool in various disciplinary fields. Despite this, the 3D models produced by different research, investigation, and speculation activities are still only used as a basis and as sources for the production of images and scientific contributions (papers in journals, contributions in conference proceedings, etc.) in dissemination and cultural activities, but without having yet assumed full autonomy as a ‘scientific fact’, as a product of research, or as a means of scientific debate and progress. This paper outlines the context in the field of architecture and archeology in which the use of 3D models has become increasingly widespread, reaching a level of full maturity, and how the field of hypothetical reconstruction can be characterized as an autonomous/scientific discipline through the definition and adoption of a scientific, transparent, verifiable, reusable, and refutable method. In this context, the definition of the 3D model as a product of scientific speculation and research is proposed

Epistemology · Management science · Scientific modelling · Computer Science · Engineering · Philosophy · Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry

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