Summer Palace Digital Restoration. Image Courtesy of Yuan Ming Yuan (2006 Documentary)
In 2009, the nearly one-and-a-half-hour-long documentary Daming Palace was filmed, and nearly half of the time was completed with special effects, restoring the Tang Chang an City, Danfeng Gate, Hanyuan Palace, and other things that only exist in history books. According to statistics, this documentary has restored about 500 football fields the size of Daming Palace. It is the first time that China has restored the world s largest brick-wood palace complex.
The Advantages of Using 3D Rendering for Heritage Restoration
The restoration rendering of ancient buildings has the characteristics of high accuracy, scientific and permanent preservation of cultural relics, and can use architectural rendering technology to make ancient buildings into a set of concrete, vivid, peripheral, accurate, and virtual simulation systems. Wherever possible, people can have a clearer understanding of the cultural he