Visualising Portus

At a site as large and complex as Portus, it is often hard to work out the building phases of individual structures, or get a feel for the original landscape. The AHRC portus Project is therefore employing a range of visualisation tools to interpret and present the site as it is now and as we believe it was in the past. Computer graphics make the site easier to understand by presenting archaeological findings in an easily comprehensible, but historically accurate format. Similarly, artistic and conventional illustrative techniques shed light on specific objects and on the archaeological process. Photography, including innovative techniques such as polynomial texture mapping, create an archive of the excavation and remote access to the artefacts recovered.

The pages in this section give access to:

• Our current computer graphics work 
• Polynomial texture mapping 
• Photographs from the Portus Project 

We have also prepared some content that can be viewed in Google Earth:

• Overlay of the Claudian and Trajanic basins on the current landscape
• Some initial CGI models of the site 

You can visit a model of the site of Portus in Second Life:

• Portus II (Note: If the SLURL does not take you straight there use the Portus Project teleporter in the University of Southampton welcome area).

The following pages also provide information relating to our previous computer graphics work:

• Routes around the site 
• The temple 
• Cistern reconstruction 
• Reconstruction methodology
• Warehouses