I have a couple ideas for my thesis and after getting the ideas down on paper I noticed that they both had a shared common thread. I have decided to describe this commonality of goals for my thesis.
This is a rough explanation transcribed directly from my notes:
Take a scene, architecture, or place from the past. Recreate it using 3D to transform it from what it looks like today, to the way that it looked long ago.
Why???
1. This will allow viewers to visualize a piece of the past. (historical importance) Somewhere people may have read about or seen in photos for educational purposes, recreating a place allows viewers to feel a scene that may have only existed in their imagination.
2. To share what my imagination seen when reading about history
3. To evoke the imagination/emotions of others
4. Memorialize a part of civilization
5. Pictures can be worth a thousand words. A visual representation of an important place in our history can evoke more emotion then simply reading about it or looking at still images/paintings
6. Visualize an important part of history as a clear picture in your minds eye that will last in memory.