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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:49 AM Oct 2016

2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Home Reconstructed in 3D

2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Home Reconstructed in 3D

By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | October 7, 2016 04:16pm ET

Researchers used 3D technology to digitally reconstruct a wealthy home in Pompeii, showing how it might have looked before Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79.

Credit: Lund University

Archaeologists have digitally reconstructed a house in Pompeii to show what life must have been like for a rich Roman banker 2,000 years ago.

The Italian city was famously buried in volcanic ash —and frozen in time — in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The vast ruins of Pompeii have been explored since the 18th century, and archaeologists today still flock to the site to uncover more of the city's secrets.

Since 2000, the Swedish Pompeii Project has been working to document an entire city block, or "insula," in close detail. This block included three big estates, a tavern, a laundry, a bakery and several gardens.

Led by Anne-Marie Leander Touati, an archaeologist at Lund University, the Swedish team has used traditional excavation methods as well as more advanced techniques like laser scanning and drone imaging to digitally reconstruct that block. The researchers have now completed their first 3D models showing this section of the city as it stands today.

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2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Home Reconstructed in 3D (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2016 OP

Awesome! One of the first tiny steps Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2016 #1

ooooh lillypaddle Oct 2016 #2

You probably know this, but in some places on the map google Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2016 #8

Nope, didn't know that lillypaddle Oct 2016 #9

You already have that. n/t jtuck004 Oct 2016 #4

One of the most LittleGirl Oct 2016 #3

My daughter is in art conservation woodsprite Oct 2016 #5

It's good to be rich in any culture/any time packman Oct 2016 #6

They did OK then, also Warpy Oct 2016 #7

Explore Pompeii's original splendour in this stunning 3D reconstruction Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #10

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)

1. Awesome! One of the first tiny steps

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:00 AM

Oct 2016

toward the creation of my dream google street view: one that can transport us way back in time!

lillypaddle

(9,580 posts)

2. ooooh

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:24 AM

Oct 2016

that would be cool!

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)

8. You probably know this, but in some places on the map google

Reply to lillypaddle (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 04:29 PM

Oct 2016

street view has a number of dates you can view, which is pretty darn cool. But, yes, how much cooler to be able to go back, back, back...

I'd pay a fee for that!

lillypaddle

(9,580 posts)

9. Nope, didn't know that

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Reply #8)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:05 PM

Oct 2016

tbh, haven't played much with google street view, but now I just might. Thanks for the tip.

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

4. You already have that. n/t

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:38 AM

Oct 2016

LittleGirl

(8,287 posts)

3. One of the most

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 06:35 AM

Oct 2016

interesting tours I took in Italy...it was just as fascinating to me as the Vatican.

woodsprite

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5. My daughter is in art conservation

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 07:43 AM

Oct 2016

They had a speaker come into one of their lectures on historic preservation and display and discuss her work on recreating models of the gardens of Pompeii. She also spoke of pompeiian graffiti. Funny stuff to google. It makes you realize there hasn't been a lot of change in people in 2000 years.

packman

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6. It's good to be rich in any culture/any time

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 12:02 PM

Oct 2016

Well, maybe not so much in the French Revolution.

Warpy

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7. They did OK then, also

Reply to packman (Reply #6)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 02:21 PM

Oct 2016

if they had the brains to get out of Dodge and go to one of their country houses. The ones who thought it would all blow over and that the military would teach those peasants where they belonged were the ones who lost their heads.

Judi Lynn

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10. Explore Pompeii's original splendour in this stunning 3D reconstruction

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Tue Oct 11, 2016, 01:26 PM

Oct 2016

Explore Pompeii's original splendour in this stunning 3D reconstruction

Lund University academics have recreated buildings from Pompeii using digital architecture

By Matt Burgess
Tuesday 11 October 2016

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This is the house of Caecilius Iucundus, a wealthy banker who died in Pompeii following the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius more than 2,000 years ago.

Before the volcanic ash rained down, the banker lived a life of splendour: mosaic floors, elaborately decorated walls and multiple large rooms can be seen in a digital reconstruction of his house.

Using original objects, small finds, and wall decorations from the house it was possible for academics at Lund University, Sweden, to create a digital replica of the house. In 2011 and 2012 the historians laser scanned a block of the ruined city and followed this up with a drone scanning of the city in 2015.

From here they were able to create a digital mesh and polygon structure and recreate what may have existed. "The authentic as-is appearance of all walls and floors presented in the film was made possible when a method was developed that permitted to add digital photographs," the research team wrote in a paper discussing the work.

More:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/pompeii-digital-recreation

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