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.
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