For a local history volunteering club I am looking to develop a walk-through version of the town in question through the ages. So I would like to offer the user a century (1500, 1600, ..., 2000) and have him/her walk through the city, much like google street view, but then as if it could have been in those ages. I am only looking at the part within the city walls and of these maps are available going back till at least 1500. Switching between centuries means I would have to accommodate for changes in real estate, either in whole or in part, and perhaps even groups of houses. The street plan has not changed, apart from closing riverways.
As a start I would probably do the following:
- obtain the x,y,z coordinates of all houses, as a rough guess 5000; complexity can be reduced in that houses are typically joined, so that a specific (x,y) of one house is the same as that of its neighbour.
- obtain photographs or drawings of each house as it would have looked like in each century and apply them as a skin to match the coordinates.
- find a viewer that will allow a user to perform a walk through
How is such a process normally done, for example for the Assassin's Creed series portraying parts of Florence and Paris?
As a start I would probably do the following:
- obtain the x,y,z coordinates of all houses, as a rough guess 5000; complexity can be reduced in that houses are typically joined, so that a specific (x,y) of one house is the same as that of its neighbour.
- obtain photographs or drawings of each house as it would have looked like in each century and apply them as a skin to match the coordinates.
- find a viewer that will allow a user to perform a walk through
How is such a process normally done, for example for the Assassin's Creed series portraying parts of Florence and Paris?