Building a (Virtual) Roman Emperor's Villa 50
Nerval's Lobster writes "Scientists have been using everything from supercomputing clusters to 3D printers to virtually recreate dinosaur bones. Now another expert is trying to do something similar with the ancient imperial villa built for Roman emperor Hadrian, who ruled from 117 A.D. to 138 A.D. Hadrian's Villa is already one of the best-preserved Roman imperial sites, but that wasn't quite good enough for Indiana University Professor of Informatics Bernie Frischer, who trained as a classical philologist and archaeologist before being seduced by computers into what evolved into the academic discipline of digital analysis and reproduction of archaeological and historical works. The five-year effort to recreate Hadrian's Villa is based on information from academic studies of the buildings and grounds, as well as analyses of how the buildings, grounds and artifacts were used; the team behind it decided to go with gaming platform Unity 3D as a key part of the simulation."
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Oh, come on. (Score:1, Funny)
Dinosaur bones, Roman villas... can someone tell me why aren't we printing 3D boobs yet?
Get with the program, science!
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Re:Oh, come on. (Score:5, Insightful)
Reminds me of this bit from Isaac Asimov -
Woman: How pleasant it would be if only we lived a hundred years ago when it was easy to get servants.
Isaac Asimov: It would be horrible... We'd be the servants.
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Let's see: unpaid work, check. No breaks, check. Verbal abuse, check. Laws re-constructed in an effort to make it difficult to change jobs, check
We're just one law change away.
In your state maybe. Thats because you allowed this. This 'I don't want to vote because...' an excellent law would be one that ties your paycheck to your voting record. Those that don't vote don't get raises or get paid less that those who do. Sounds authoritarian and evil. It is. However, its the only way we would actually get rid of the garbage in Washington. You know in Australia, you are fined if you don't vote. Even better if you are repeatedly fined, you lose certain abilities in the public life. Why
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Let's see: unpaid work, check. No breaks, check. Verbal abuse, check. Laws re-constructed in an effort to make it difficult to change jobs, check
We're just one law change away.
Well, if you weren't an Anonymous Coward and doing what must be under the table labor, that wouldn't happen to you.
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Presumably because boobs come attached to their own self-replicating mechanism.
Time... (Score:1)
Look, I think people who are in the market for 3D printed boobs don't want to wait 18 years and 9 months...
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Clearly you don't understand the purpose of 3D printing. As Raj and Howard showed, you can print your own whistle. In only 3 hours!
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I'm always confused by this... moobs are _always_ bad, and they're justboobs on a man [wikipedia.org]. If people like boobs so much, there are probably plenty of candidates with them on this site.
We've been making artificial boobs for decades, anyway.
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Dinosaur bones, Roman villas... can someone tell me why aren't we printing 3D boobs yet?
Get with the program, science!
Umm, they are. Its just they are attached to 3d bodies of the real dolls. What I want to know is why is the first post an attack on the health care website. At this point, it will fail. 27,000? Yes, thats a death spiral. We will be worse off in 2016 but may this be a lesson that the policies of yesteryear don't work. We cannot force people to pay for what they don't want. Yes we have an obligation to help everyone. So yes health care will continue to be like it was. SMH
Website also ancient tech (Score:4, Insightful)
A flash website in 2013?
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A flash website in 2013?
and 2014, 2015, 2016. ....
Just block Flash in your browser and you won't have to worry about it. There's nothing on a Flash site that would interest you anyway.
Supercomputer (Score:1)
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Sure, it can recreate an ancient villa, but can it run Crysis?
of course considering the age of Crysis now. my net-book can run Crysis. So can we kill this meem?
Time Enough for Love (Score:2)
Give a copy to Minerva/Athena - Lazarus Long wants a house like that on Tertius
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Over 20 years ago, I saw the 3D model of one of the biggest cathedrals ever built and destroyed.
It was really cool cutting edge, then.
It might be news if they had done it a few years ago with with a then-obscure game that everybody would now use to make all kinds of buildings...
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It might be news if they had done it a few years ago with with a then-obscure game that everybody would now use to make all kinds of buildings...
It might even be something worth looking at if they provided the map file for that formerly obscure game and exported it to work on a Raspberry Pi for use in grade school classrooms. Heck, let's really make it news by having Natalie Portman giving a virutal tour of the building where an audio track recorded by her takes kids through the various parts of the building, which you can purchase for 0.01 BTC.
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I cannot see where the Hot Grits are in your post
Inside of the Beowolf cluster, of course!
Re: School of Informatics and Computing represent! (Score:2)
Surely not Natalie Portman? She's pretty much close to 2D.
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A THEME park (Score:2)
Westworld here we come...
Time to take the toga out of my closet...hmmm Break glass in case of emergency, global warming qualifies as an emergency doesn't it?
(Sound of glass shattering)
What games can we play in it? (Score:2)
Seriously. What games will work with this model?
I bet he didn't make any of it destructible.
Where can I get a grant? (Score:2)
Hardly new (Score:1)
I have to say that this is hardly new: people have been modelling archaeological reconstructions for quite a few years now. This may be larger than many, but it is hardly /. novel. Not that I am suggesting that it is not worth doing, or that the professor has not done well. But it is news for archaeological students and educators, not computer geeks.
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OpenSIm (Score:2)
Too bad it wasn't released as an opensim OAR.