Walk through 古代の Rome in largest ever 数字表示式の 模擬実験/偽ること

Last updated at 10:20 12 June 2007


Rome's monuments may be (人が)群がるd with tourists, 手足を不自由にする/(物事を)損なうd by time and 損失d by 汚染, but the glory days of this 古代の 皇室の city are alive and 井戸/弁護士席 - inside a computer.



専門家s from around the world today 明かすd what they called the largest and most 完全にする 模擬実験/偽ること of a historic city, which digitally recreates Rome as it appeared at the 頂点(に達する) of its 力/強力にする.

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Rostra (front)

When in 事実上の Rome, 訪問者s will be able to do even more than 古代の Romans did: They can はう through the bowels of the Colosseum, filled with lion cages and 原始の elevators, and 飛行機で行く up for a 詳細(に述べる)d look at bas-救済s and inscriptions placed 頂上に triumphal arches.

The 模擬実験/偽ること shows Rome in A.D. 320, at the time the emperor Constantine, and 再建するs some 7,000 buildings of a vibrant and cosmopolitan city of about 1 million people, said Bernard Frischer of the University of Virginia, who led the 事業/計画(する).

Thanks to レーザー ざっと目を通すs of Rome today and advice from archaeologists, 専門家s have rebuilt almost the entire city within its 13-mile-long (21-kilometre-long) 塀で囲む using the same computer programs architects use to 計画(する) new constructions, said Frischer, who 長,率いるs Virginia's 学校/設ける for 前進するd 科学(工学)技術 in the Humanities.

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Rostra (back)

The 模擬実験/偽ること 再建するs the 内部の of about 30 buildings - 含むing the 上院, the Colosseum and the basilica built by the emperor Maxentius - 完全にする with frescoes and decorations.

Advice from a パネル盤 of archaeologists a llowed 専門家s to show statues and monuments as they would appear without the dark smudges left by 汚染. They also were able to recreate with a "high probability" of 正確 buildings that are now almost 完全に in 廃虚s, such as the 寺 献身的な to the goddesses Venus and Roma and the Meta Sudans, a fountain that stood 近づく the Colosseum, Frischer said.

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long shot

The US$2 million (£1 million) "Rome Reborn" 模擬実験/偽ること was created over 10 years by an international team of archaeologists, architects and computer specialists from the University of Virginia and the Los Angeles 支店 of the University of California, 同様に 研究 学校/設けるs in Italy, Germany and Britain, he said.

The 模擬実験/偽ること will be useful for scientists to run 実験s - for example to 決定する the (人が)群がる capacity of the 古代の buildings - and as a new 肉親,親類d of scholarly 定期刊行物 that will be updated each time a new 発見 is made on one of Rome's 古代の marvels.

It also is of value for students and tourists visiting Rome, Frischer said at a 贈呈 of the work in Rome's city hall.

"This is the first step in the 創造 of a 事実上の time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to 熟考する/考慮する the history of Rome and many other 広大な/多数の/重要な cities around the world," he said.

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Sections of the 模擬実験/偽ること are 利用できる on the Internet. The Web 場所/位置 only 申し込む/申し出s images and ビデオs of the 模擬実験/偽ること, since 許すing 同時の 接近 to 潜在的に thousands of 使用者s would 要求する enormous computer 力/強力にする, Frischer said. He said 会談 had begun with Linden L abs, based in San Francisco, California, to make the entire 模擬実験/偽ること 利用できる on the Internet through the company's 事実上の world "Second Life."

A group of 私的な companies also 計画(する)s to open in April 2008 a theater 近づく the Colosseum that will feature interactive, 3D 活気/アニメーションs based on the 模擬実験/偽ること, Rome 公式の/役人s said.

The 初めの 模擬実験/偽ること does not 含む any characters, but the 商業の 事業/計画(する) would be 居住させるd by thousands of 人物/姿/数字s, some of them based on 骸骨/概要s and other archaeological finds 明らかにするd in Rome and across Italy.

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