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Computing the “Holy Wisdom”

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Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage

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The church of Hagia Sophia – from the Greek: □γία Σοϕία, “Holy Wisdom” – built on the orders of Emperor Justinianis from 532 to 537 (AD) is the most important building of an era which is generally characterised as the decline of the ancient world and the beginning of the mediaeval times. The building is well considered to be one of the most outstanding masterpieces of architecture in the world having an extensive influence on European and islamic architecture in general.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Further reading [7, 8, 11, 12, 21, 26].

  2. 2.

    Cf. [27].

  3. 3.

    Procopius, aedificia I 1,30; English citation: buildings, by H. B. Dewing, as printed in Vol. VII of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Procopius, published in 1940 Cambridge.

  4. 4.

    [13]. – For an overview see [18:47 ann. 3].

  5. 5.

    [24:73]. Cf. in general [25]. – Still unpublished: Schibille N (2004) Light in Early Byzantium: the Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dissertation University of Cambridge. Cf. [18].

  6. 6.

    Promoted 1999–2001 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the framework of the priority programme “theatricality” (Title: »Die Hagia Sophia Justinians in Konstantinopel als Schauplatz weltlicher und geistlicher Inszenierungen in der Spätantike«), under the shared responsability of W. C. Schneider (Darmstadt/Hildesheim) and R. H. W. Stichel (Darmstadt). – Cf. for the latest publications [3, 21–23].

  7. 7.

    [3].

  8. 8.

    [11:185–217].

  9. 9.

    [11:126–127].

  10. 10.

    [20]. – For the reconstruction [22].

  11. 11.

    [17:67]. Cf. [11:79 fig. 94].

  12. 12.

    [26:46 plates]: format: 58, 5 × 89 cm.

  13. 13.

    [14].

  14. 14.

    Cf. Svenshon – Stichel, Oktagramm, Svenshon – Stichel, Monads; [23].

  15. 15.

    Cf. Svenshon – Stichel, Monads.

  16. 16.

    Ibid.

  17. 17.

    [5:40] p. 45. “Different Measurings of Conches”.

  18. 18.

    Ibid. “Do like this: 8 from the diameter X 8 = 64, 11 × 64 = 704, 1/14 × 704 = 50 ¼ 1/28. That much is the surface of the conche.”

  19. 19.

    [4:XXII].

  20. 20.

    We used the macbethcal program from the radiance package to adjust color and brightness of photos of the different kind stones in the building so that we could use them for measurements and mapping.

  21. 21.

    For that the pictures in [17] were analysed as well as a huge amount of own on-site photographs.

  22. 22.

    [1, 2, 10, 15].

  23. 23.

    CIE 110-1994, see [19].

  24. 24.

    [10:499 seq].

  25. 25.

    High dynamic range, see [6] and [16:6 seq].

  26. 26.

    We have generated very different images from the same simulation results as well.

  27. 27.

    [6] and [16:6 seq].

  28. 28.

    [16:187 seq]. List of operators [16:table 8.1(p. 358)]. A good overview [6].

  29. 29.

    About the inner 1% of its field of view. For the operators see [9:7].

  30. 30.

    “Finally, the current method pays little attention to absolute color perception, which is strongly affected by global adaption and source color (i.e. white balance).” [9:33].

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Hauck, O., Noback, A., Grobe, L. (2013). Computing the “Holy Wisdom”. In: Bock, H., Jäger, W., Winckler, M. (eds) Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage. Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28021-4_22

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