An Interactive Tool for Modeling Ancient Masonry Buildings

Abstract

We present a new pipeline of an interactive tool that combines procedural modeling of ancient masonry buildings with structural simulation. The tool has been designed for taking an input geometry of an ancient building and re-meshing it into a suitable mesh with a low quad density. Then, it creates the brick outlines on the mesh and adds the brick volumes for structural simulation. The tool was designed and built on a set of off-the-shelf tools. We tested and demonstrated its viability by modeling of a Romanesque church based on a real one from the 11th century, such as the church of Santa Maria de Agullana.