Digital surveys and reconstructions of the Franciscan friary at Visegrád, Hungary : Examples of the history of computer-aided reconstructions of medieval buildings in Hungary

The first computer-aided reconstructions of a Hungarian medieval building complex were created thirty years ago. The digital recreation of the cloister vault and the cloister walk of the Franciscan friary were part of the first Hungarian project aimed at creating a theoretical and visual reconstruction based on the preserved carved stones of a medieval building using computer-aided methods. This anniversary offers now an opportunity to summarise the development of the last thirty years and show the new possibilities of digital technologies and the methodological issues that emerged in the recent excavations of the friary.