[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar today - Making Heritage Virtual

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard and the Humanities Center at Harvard as part of the Digital Humanities Seminar Series Wednesday, April 16, 2008; 4:00-5:30pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Bernard Frischer, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia and Dean Abernathy, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia Seminar Title: Making Heritage Virtual: Rome Reborn 1.0 and Other 3D Modeling Projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Abstract: This talk will discuss the digitization of 3D cultural property such as pottery, statues, buildings and even entire cities. Current projects at IATH include Rome Reborn, an international initiative to create 3D computer models of Rome's urban development, from first settlement to the city's depopulation in the sixth century A.D. Rome Reborn 1.0, the first result, shows Rome as it might have appeared in 320 A.D. The talk will conclude with discussion of some new directions and challenges: populating models with people and their activities, using them as tools for discovery, and collecting and disseminating real-time 3D models on the Internet. Upcoming IIC Seminars: Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars