Author(s)

T. Tidafi & D.W. Booth

Abstract

This paper presents the hypotheses, methodology and results of a research project whose subject is the simulation of historic buildings using computer technology. In the context of this research and for the purposes of the paper, the word "simulation" is defined as the computational representation of visual aspects of any architectural fabric in such a way as to permit one to reason about the manner in which said fabric was conceived and constructed. The objective of the paper is to demonstrate a potentially revolutionary method of simulation able to integrate the intellectual and constructional procedures that actually informed

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