I'm currently trying to finish my MA Computer Graphics studies and after months of struggle, I managed to wrangle my thesis into existence.
The topic is "Digital Reconstruction of Archaeological Finds" and here's the abstract:
This thesis defines archaeological reconstruction and describes its historyI know, it's so DRY and boring.
and evolution. It explores the use of computers in reconstruction and lists
currently used techniques and methods. Romanian archaeology and a brief
historical summary of the ancient Dacian people are discussed with Romanian
archaeologists. The practical part presents the results of attempted reconstructions
of Dacian archaeological finds supplied by Romanian archaeologists.
Various freely available applications suitable for reconstruction were
tested and their performance compared. The thesis also suggests possible
course of further research and development of digital reconstruction.
You can download the whole text (with pictures too!) here: http://pospabr.sweb.cz/dpJanPospisil.pdf
Anyway, as part of the thesis I also did a painting.
It shows a family of Comati (or Komatai), ancient Dacian commoners. If you want to know more, check out the link above. :)
