A “three-dimensional translation” of the World City project

Abstract

The task of this work is to transform unidimensional data, in the way of textual spatial information, into a three-dimensional virtual representation. Furthermore, the connected purpose is to disclose the knowledge of a masterpiece appertaining to cultural and architectural heritage: the “World City” project. We employ a self-made system to analyse the text and to extract specific sentences from it and a computer graphic software to visualize a scene in a virtual environment. The methodology employs a set of rules that analyse the annotated text and create a link between the linguistic elements and the three-dimensional entities that will compose the virtual scene. The work ends with an example: an original sentence and the corresponding 3D scene generated by the system is illustrated.