The main goal of the project is to preserve knowledge about vanished medieval city of Most, predecessor of contemporary statutory city Most and spread it among younger generations. The unique transformation of the city of Most and breaking of its continuity merits detailed research and publication of its result.
This goal will be accomplished by a set of interconnected products, chief among them a detailed historically accurate virtual 3D model of “Old Most” and its online presentation in the form of "street view", commented fly-by animations and a virtual reality. Virtual reality and street view will be built from photorealistic textures obtained from old photos. Important component of the virtual model will be structured data about individual buildings, streets, squares and city districts. It won't be a “lifeless model irrelevant future generations” but a “living model” providing unique insight into the daily life in the vanished city of Most.
Information database will be filled via web tools in cooperation with contemporary witnesses and young generation - school children and students. This cooperation, informally called “Talks about Old Most”, will strengthen youngest generation's knowledge about the city of their ancestors and it will help to collect and preserve vanishing collective memory and identity of the locality. Data will be spatially structured in a 3D model and appended with relevant historical research results in cooperation with historians. The cooperation of generations will connect proficiency in internet tools with firsthand knowledge of real life in a vanished city.
Secondary results will be a web application for old maps of Most locality and digital print sources for paper models and 3D printing of buildings, streets and city districts.