Portraits of Julius Caesar: a proposal for 3D analysis
This addresses the problem of analyzing and comparing ancient artifacts for archaeologists and historians, but it is incremental as it applies existing 3D methods to new data.
The paper proposes using 3D scanning and rendering to create virtual copies of ancient artifacts, specifically Roman marble busts including portraits of Julius Caesar, to enable study and comparison, with the finding that 3D visualization is necessary based on image comparisons.
Here I suggest the use of a 3D scanning and rendering to create some virtual copies of ancient artifacts to study and compare them. In particular, this approach could be interesting for some roman marble busts, two of which are portraits of Julius Caesar, and the third is a realistic portrait of a man recently found at Arles, France. The comparison of some images indicates that a three-dimensional visualization is necessary.