Dear Florian,

thank you for this interesting puzzle!

Before I venture into concrete suggestions, allow me to ask some question in 
the form of assumptions you can confirm, reject, or discuss:

The establishment of a hypothetical viewpoint is used to establish a location 
of the canvas. That means the following:

1. There is a 3D model of a landscape where each point (also those making up 
lines and polygons) are normal (x,y,z) coordinates in some coordinate system.

2. The hypothetical/assumed viewpoint of the photographer or the painter is a 
point in the same coordinate system.

3. Each point of the canvas (representing a painting or a photography) being 
put into the landscape is a point in the same coordinate system. Thus the 
canvas as a whole is an area in that coordinate system.

If this is so, we might very well talk about something added to a pre-existing 
3D model. If not, I would be happy to be enlightened and hopefully manage to 
dig further. 

All the best,

Øyvind

> Am 26.10.2021 um 10:28 schrieb Florian Kräutli via Crm-sig 
> <[email protected]>:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a data modelling challenge I would need some advice with.
> 
> We work with a collection of geographic depictions of Switzerland. This 
> includes photographs, paintings, prints, sketches, etc. We collaborate with 
> Smapshot <http://smapshot.heig-vd.ch/> who developed a method for aligning 
> landscape photographs with a 3D model of the physical landscape. An example 
> from our own collection can be seen here: 
> https://smapshot.heig-vd.ch/visit/204037 
> <https://smapshot.heig-vd.ch/visit/204037>
> 
> Using this method we can determine the possible viewpoint of a photographer 
> when taking a picture, or the viewpoint from which an artist may have 
> produced sketches of a landscape. In terms of data, we obtain the simulated 
> position and view of the photographer/artist as coordinates (lat/long), 
> altitude, azimuth, tilt, roll and focal view.
> 
> I'm debating now how to model this obtained data in CIDOC-CRM. I would 
> suggest a S7 Simulation or Prediction for the process of using the Smapshot 
> app to determine a viewpoint of an image. This process P140 assigns an 
> attribute to a E36 Visual Item, namely that the E36 Visual Item (the image) 
> P138 Represents a view. What is this view? Can we say it is a E53 Place? Or 
> is there a more suitable entity for describing such a (simulated) view?
> 
> One could also say that the data defines a E53 Place from which an image has 
> been created. However, while we can say this with some degree of certainty 
> for photographs, a painting of a landscape might have been created using a 
> combination of several viewpoints as well as, of course, use of imagination 
> on and off-site, so I would be hesitant to make a statement about the 
> physical location of an artist when creating a painting.
> 
> I would be grateful for your input!
> 
> All best,
> 
> Florian
> 
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