A Digital Investigation Manifesting use of Geometric Stencils for the Drawing of Akrotiri Thera Prehistoric Wall Paintings

The present chapter deals with the problem of determining the method used to draw several celebrated and beautiful wall-paintings belonging to the Late Bronze Age (c. 1630 B.C.), that were excavated at Akrotiri, Thera, Hellas (Greece). First, the authors process the wall paintings’ digital images in order to extract the contour of their main thematic entities. Subsequently, a number of fundamental definitions are Georgios Galanopoulos National Technical University of Athens, Greece Afroditi Pantazi National Technical University of Athens, Greece Constantin Papaodysseus National Technical University of Athens, Greece DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-786-9.ch003 A Digital Investigation Manifesting use of Geometric Stencils

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