This article explores the potential of combining high‐performance computing techniques and a set of integrated digital methods to investigate the cityscape of ancient Hermione, Greece. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), terrestrial laser scanning, image‐based modelling techniques and high‐performance computing have been combined to provide a fully‐three‐dimensional (3D) representation of the city landscape, which encompasses both the topography and those still visible archaeological features, which are nowadays annexed into the modern buildings. As a consequence, the resulting geo‐located digital platform is now opening up interesting opportunities for research, such as the possibility to analyse spatial interconnections between sacred buildings, to formulate hypotheses about their location and to put them in comparison with the accounts made by historical sources. By taking advantage both of an entirely‐3D reconstruction and the analytic tools provided by geographical information systems (GISs), more sophisticated analyses can now be performed and specific issues such as visual perception and movement to and from prominent buildings/spaces can now be investigated. (Less)

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古代赫敏揭示：高性能计算和数字方法对隐藏城市景观分析的贡献

本文探讨了将高性能计算技术与一组集成数字方法相结合的潜力，以研究古希腊赫敏的城市景观。无人机 (UAV)、地面激光扫描、基于图像的建模技术和高性能计算相结合，提供了城市景观的全三维 (3D) 表示，其中包括地形和那些仍然可见的景观考古特征，如今已被纳入现代建筑。因此，由此产生的地理定位数字平台现在为研究开辟了有趣的机会，例如分析神圣建筑之间的空间互连的可能性，对它们的位置提出假设，并将它们与历史资料的记载进行比较。通过利用完全 3D 重建和地理信息系统 (GIS) 提供的分析工具，现在可以执行更复杂的分析，并且现在可以调查特定问题，例如视觉感知以及进出突出建筑物/空间的移动. （较少的）