Saturday, April 14, 2012

Rome Reborn

For everyone who can't get enough about ancient Rome (I'm sure ALL of you fall in that category!), the Rome Reborn project is for you.  What it is:

"Since 1997, the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory of the University of Virginia (VWHL), the UCLA Experiential Technology Center (ETC), the Reverse Engineering (INDACO) Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, the Ausonius Institute of the CNRS and the University of Bordeaux-3, and the University of Caen have collaborated on a project to create a digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in late antiquity. The notional date of the model is June 21, 320 A.D."
They've improved the depiction over the years.  This is the August 2011 version.  Take the tour:


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