Re: Funny, I found this project last week or so....

Nope, it's just that bloggers are faster than traditional news outlets.

On 6/13/07, Joshua Bierman <josh.bierman@gmail.com> wrote:
> and here it is being written up.... I wonder if I am listening to the
> collective unconscious again.... might be time to get my brain a tune
> up.....
>
>
> Ancient Rome Brought Back to Life
>
> from BBC News Online
>
> Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital
> reconstruction project, said to be the world's biggest computer
> simulation.
> An international team of architects, archaeologists and experts spent 10
> years working on a real-time 3D model of the city called Rome Reborn.
>
> Some 7,000 buildings were scanned and reproduced using a model of the
> city
> kept at a Rome museum. Users enter the city at the time of
> Constantine and
> see inside buildings. The simulation takes place in AD320, which is
> said to
> be the city's peak, when it had grown to a million inhabitants.
>
> "We can take people under the Colosseum and show them how the elevators
> worked to bring the animals up from underground chambers for the animal
> hunts they held," said Bernard Frischer, the project's leader who heads
> Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
>
> To read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6743991.stm
>
> Or: http://tinyurl.com/2hvxs4
>

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