A central exhibit of the Vienna Museum is the approximately 5×5 meter paper model of the Inner City. It was built in 1898, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the throne of Emperor Franz Joseph and as a symbol of the growth of the city and the importance of Vienna in 1900. The Vienna Museum has launched a fundraising campaign for the purpose to restore the famous paper model. The symbolic purchase of a historical addresses should provide the necessary means for restoration. NOUS has implemented the project of the fundraising website. In the first step, the paper model was determined photogrammetrically and then a three-dimensional and interactive model was created. With 100 Euro per address you can use comfortable online checkout to devote a piece of Vienna to someone important to you, or acquire it yourself, thus supporting and promoting the restoration and exploration of this icon of the Wien Museum.
The massive and detailed 5x5m paper model inside the Wien Museum was 3D scanned and rebuilt digitally to explore on desktop and mobile devices, using just the browser in realtime 3D. The 3D model needed to be massively optimized for data streaming over the internet. The model needed to be reduced in polycount to a bare minimum, preserving all details and cut into pieces, which could be dynamically loaded in the browser.
