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Fugoppe Cave Site

The Fugoppe Cave Site in Yoichi town, located in near Otaru, Hokkaido,was found in 1950 and designated as National Monument in 1953.
It has the breadth of about 7m width, 6m depth, 5m height, and belongs to the history of Post-Jomon Period, about 1500 years ago.
There are more than 200 attractive engravings on the wall surface, which represent humans, animals, boats, fishes, or humans masqueraded as animals.
Such engravings are considered to strongly related to hoodooistic ritual, implying cultural relation with far north zone of Siberia or America.

Scanning

We tried to model some parts of small area (detail model)
in the cave by MINOLTA VIVID 900 range scanner in Jun. 2002,
and whole area (coarse model) by Cyrax 2500 in Sep. 2002,
with the cooperation of Yoichi town.

Result

Acquired range images were aligned to the same coordinate.
They were merged to form a complete model.
Follows are the samples.

Fugoppe Cave Site