Abstract

Three-dimensional representation is becoming an effective supportfor the documentation of the state of conservation of heritage artefacts, for thestudy of its transformations and for cultural diffusion. 3D digitizationtechnologies now offer effective means to observe and analyze historicbuildings with more accuracy, completeness and timeliness. Nevertheless, itproduces a real problem of information overload. The growing mass of uninterpreteddata make emerge a need for innovative methodologies assistingdata processing, sorting and analysis by researchers who want to use it foradvancing the knowledge of cultural heritage. Exploring the informationalvalue of these new representation systems allows introducing new approachesto the analysis of artefacts so distant in space but so close in features. This chapter presents someresearch avenues for defining a geometric /semantic description model ofarchitectural elements in order to integrate the informative value of 3Ddigitization in intelligible representations.