Coastal Carolina University

Virtual Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments
 
Ashes2Art is an innovative interdisciplinary concept that combines art history, archaeology, graphic and web design, 3D animation and digital photography to recreate monuments of the ancient past online. It is focused on a web-based, open-source presentation of its materials. Faculty and students conduct focused research on specific monuments, visit the locations, shoot high resolution digital panoramas, write essays that summarize scholarly opinions based on published archaeological reports, and document those sources with extended bibliographies. Immersive 3D models are built and posted online utilizing technologies including, Panoweaver, Tourweaver, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Adobe Photoshop, Google Earth, SketchUp, Cinema 4D, RealViz Stitcher, Dreamweaver, Photostory, Adobe Director MX, Vectorworks and Macromedia Flash.
 
 
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