Corfe Castle 3D model
A Norman masterpiece building
The remains of Corfe Castle stand above the village of the same name on the Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the fortification dates to the 11th century and commanded a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. William was the Duke of Normandy, and this castle is showing the power at the time of the Normans who invaded Britain. I planned to scan it while visiting Dorset over Easter to develop a 3D model for my private collection of historical places. There was no purpose in using the model for any commercial survey tasks but found these ruins quite evocative and beautiful so decided to go ahead and scan it. For the task, I used a professional DJI “Enterprise Advanced” drone and flew it in preprogrammed mission for Oblique image capture. The task required some time and several batteries, but the wait was worth the results obtained.
3D Visualization
I always work on achieving hight resolution textures to be mapped on meshes with lower polygon count. This ensures lighter models for visualization purposes that can be used for different types of surveys, like topographic, heritage or archaeological ones. If these models are produced periodically they can be used to create comparative studies, to trace the evolution of the remains degradation, potential volume displacements, and evaluation of alterations in the main structures.