{"id":1241,"date":"2007-06-12T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2007-06-12T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T15:29:37","slug":"rome-reborn-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"rome reborn 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia recently presented at a press conference in Rome the virtual city project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romereborn.virginia.edu\/\">rome reborn 1.0<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Visitors to virtual Rome will be able to do even more than ancient Romans did: They can crawl through the bowels of the Colosseum, filled with lion cages and primitive elevators, and fly up for a detailed look at bas-reliefs and inscriptions atop triumphal arches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world,&#8221; said Bernard Frischer of the University of Virginia, who led the project.<\/p>\n<p>The $2 million simulation will be used by scientists to run experiments &#8211; such as determining the crowd capacity of ancient buildings &#8211; and as a scholarly journal that will be updated at each new discovery of one of Rome&#8217;s marvels.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(citation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news100801038.html\">physorg<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia recently presented at a press conference in Rome the virtual city project rome reborn 1.0: Visitors to virtual Rome will be able to do even more than ancient Romans did: They can crawl through the bowels of the Colosseum, filled with lion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16,6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}