'The building acts like a giant sponge or notepad for generations of people from different cultures.'
SFU geography professor Nick Hedley, co-investigator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council -funded project.was built by those in positions of power and wealth, but the graffiti records the voices and activities of everybody else. The building acts like a giant sponge or notepad for generations of people from different cultures for over 2,000 years.
Therefore, Hedley oversees the team's creative visualization efforts, using cutting-edge techniques like photogrammetry, raking light, and laser scanning to capture the graffiti, its architectural context, and the environments they are located in. “The techniques we are applying to the project will completely change how the graffiti, and the temple, can be studied,” says Sabrina Higgins, an SFU archaeologist and project co-investigator. She underlines that photographs and two-dimensional plans do not allow the field site to be viewed as a dynamic, multi-layered, and evolving space.Hedley is creating a state-of-the-art three-dimensional recording of the whole surface of the temple, going beyond conventional two-dimensional imaging.
Hedley emphasizes the broad potential of using spatial reality capture technology to further the study of archaeology and other fields, even though this is revolutionary for viewing and analyzing the temple and its inscriptions. “Though my primary role in this project is to help build the definitive set of digital wall plans for the Mammisi at Philae, I’m also demonstrating how emerging spatial reality capture methods can fundamentally change how we gather and produce data and transform our ability to interpret and analyze these spaces. This is a space to watch!” said Hedley.
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