@article{Puma_Anzani_2021, title={From Authentic to Realistic, from True to Plausible: the Digital Architectural Survey between the Real and the Virtual}, volume={3}, url={https://img-journal.unibo.it/article/view/12708}, DOI={10.6092/issn.2724-2463/12708}, abstractNote={In the digital survey, the traditional opposition between uniqueness, authenticity, originality of reality and the multifaceted structure of multiplicative reproduction typical of the representation of architecture –through synthetic digital 3D models or realistic ones from SFM, interpretative syntheses of data visualization, physical models from rapid prototyping– it loses definition and becomes more and more vanishing.Although these are technical operations, in fact, in the various processing steps between acquisition and output the data gradually assumes states of greater or lesser proximity to the real data and a variable verisimilitude.The paper investigates in theoretical  terms how the conceptual domain of the informative artifact declines the cloud populated by the terms ‘original’ ‘copy’, ‘clone’, ‘reproduction’, ‘model’ and uses the selected case study with technical exemplification, interrogating it innovatively by means of ‘plausible’ optimization by algorithms currently in the betaversion phase of development by the authors.}, number={4}, journal={img journal}, author={Puma, Paola and Anzani, Giovanni}, year={2021}, month={Jan.}, pages={262–283} }