Integrating Real 3D Data and Historical Sources for the Digital Reconstruction of Five Hindu Temples

A virtual reconstruction of a set of five tower temples belonging to the archaeological area of My Son in central Vietnam, is shown. The novelty of the methodology proposed is an integration of actual 3D data collected on the site through various 3D capturing technologies and a set of historical and archeological sources and considerations. The paper shows how with a proper interdisciplinary process where technical experts in 3D capturing and digital modeling technologies interact with archeologists, reality based models may give an active feedback to the archeological reasoning, allowing to hypothesize a reliable virtual reconstruction.