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Building Rome In One Cloudless Day


From JanUNC

Computer scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Swiss university, ETH-Zurich, have invented a technique that creates 3-D models of landmarks using pictures readily available on the Internet. Millions of images can be processed on a single personal computer in less than a day.

source PhysOrg

On another note, you can now visit ancient Rome in 3D on Google Earth:


From SBARTSTV

This is the first 3D ancient city to be featured in Google Earth.

 

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