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Six-Winged Seraphim 3D

July 26, 2009 //  by A. Cemal Ekin

Two views of the 3D mapping of the mosaic
Two views of the 3D mapping of the mosaic

As I mentioned in the previous post, the newly unveiled Seraphim mosaic in Hagia Sophia reminded me of a head mapped to a flat surface. I am not an expert in 3D mapping, but I created the following composite showing how the face could have looked in 3D. I used FaceShop, a Photoshop plugin, to map the features of the depicted face to the features of a 3D face. The software then creates a 3D model that can be rotated maintaining the features of the original. I took two angles that show the shape of a face.

I wanted to see how this would look to see if the original artists could have envisioned how a rounded face could be presented on a flat surface. This is a speculative image at best, a curiosity item, a thinking tool.

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Category: PhotographyTag: Architecture, Ayasofya, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey

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