Viewing Historic Buildings in Point Cloud VR

Background

Pretend you are a historian studying Islamic domes and iwans. These structures are often decorated with pendentives, squinches, and muqarnas.

top: squinches

bottom: pendentives under a dome

diagram of pendentive and squinch

top: muqarnas in an iwan

bottom: muqarnas in a dome

muqarnas (decorative element of repeating squinches) in an iwan structure

Activity

Part A

Site Group 1

Site Group 2

Tips:

Part B

Using the measuring tool

Sample: 

Reflection

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