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Virtual Archaeology is a group dedicated to reconstructing ancient structures using 3D graphics software.


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    Author: * QuintusCinna Cocceius - 17 Posts on this thread out of 1,051 Posts sitewide.
    Date: May 12, 2005 - 22:28

    This group is very much in an artistic mode. And as for being 100% accurate, unless a person REALLY knew their stuff, we won't see it in most cases so I shrug my shoulders on that. Look at the CVRLab of UCLA for example. Their Roman Forum looks gorgeous and they used lots of Roman scholars to create each building, but their building's suck in accuracy (they are going to smack me for this). I'm doing a chapter in my thesis about their work (the plusses and minuses). Artistic liberties are to be expected, but for all of us, the less artistic liberties happen the more we learn about the different themes we go for (Nubian, Roman, Greek, and so on). There used to be gorgeous 3D reconstructed Pompeii buildings I saw on some site but I can't remember where it is anymore.

    As for the relief found in the House of Caecillus Jucundus, I feel it is more conjecture than exact. I state that because of another thing I saw with the Pompeiian amphitheater (different artist, I'm sure) painting that was completely different looking.

    An avatar, from my experience, is the little people that walk around a building or site. You have a Pompeiian 'avatar' near the column. He's beautiful.

    You won't see my works in 2 1/2D too soon. They are non-ancient in theme. My 3D work is VRML stuff. Don't encourage it for good work, VRML is bad with fog lighting and regular lighting. That's its downfall. I'm also too busy these couple terms with flash.

    I love "The Last Mile". Quite cool. Something I never thought of but found out last term was that all the holes and stones that stick out of buildings (and aqueducts) are places that wood beams were attached so the workers could use them as platforms and building.


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