16th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology

94 16 th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology Kostas Damianidis 1 , Gelina Harlaftis 1 , Spyros Vosinakis 2 , Eleni Bintsi 3 , Georgios Tzavaras 1 , Vasiliki Nikolakopoulou 2 , Nikolaos Politopoulos 2 & Alexis Tourtas 4 1 Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece 2 Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean, Greece 3 Folklife & Ethnological Museum of Macedonia – Thrace, Thessaloniki, Greece 4 Tetragon, Thessaloniki, Greece 3D digital study of the historic ship-model ‘Aris’ from the 19 th century – VHSS The 3D representation and study of a historic ship-model of the brig “Aris” was undertaken during the implementation of the project “VIRTUAL HISTORIC SAIL- ING SHIPS-VHSS” by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) of the Founda- tion for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) and the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean. The project is focusing on the creation of 3D digital models of 19 th century sailing vessels based on original data including 3D physical scaled models, draw- ings, old photographs, technical descriptions and other contemporary artifacts. The physical 3D ship-model of “Aris” is in the permanent exhibition of the Benaki Museum / Athens. The model was donated to the Museum in 1933 by the descendants of the Admiral Andreas Miaoulis (1769-1835) and according to the records it was probably built during the lifetime of the Admiral. It has a length of 64.7 cm and it is planked on the starboard side and unplanked on the port side. Parts of the inside structure of the model are visible and directly related to the structure of the real ship. The model represents the hull of the brig “Aris” built around 1813 in the shipyards of the island of Hydra. “Aris” became the flagship of the Greek fleet during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1830) and unregis- tered some time before 1834. The digital 3D recording of the model together with other sources like con- temporary descriptions, painting of the ship and its figurehead (National Historic Museum / Athens) offer a corpus of information that allows us to create a virtual reconstruction of the historic brig “Aris”. The reconstructed model will be used as a basis for the development of interactive virtual and mixed reality applications for demonstrating its construction process and simulating its sailing.