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Digital Delphi: Recreating Ancient Monuments Online

Ashes2Art combines art history, archaeology, web design, 3D animation, and digital photography to present the 4th century BCE Delphi in Greece online. Explore tholos temple of Athena, plunge bath, and more. Join professors and students' innovative work!

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Digital Delphi: Recreating Ancient Monuments Online

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  1. Ashes2Art is an innovative interdisciplinary and collaborative concept that combines art history, archaeology, web design, 3D animation and digital panoramic photography to recreate monuments of the ancient past online. It focuses on a web-based, open-source presentation of its materials conducted by faculty and undergraduate students at Coastal Carolina University and Arkansas State University. The current stage of the program examines 4th century BCE Delphi, Greece.

  2. Professors Olsen, Gill and Flaten with students

  3. Professors Flaten, Gill and Olsen with students at Olympia (above), Ephesus (upper right) and Knossos (right)

  4. The tholos temple of Athena Pronaia, Marmaria, Delphi; from the North

  5. Partial reconstruction and photograph of the tholos

  6. Various angles of the reconstructed tholos

  7. The tholos from above, South, showing the roof and entrance

  8. Interior view of the tholos, looking South

  9. Alternate reconstructions of the tholos roof, from the South

  10. Reconstruction of the plunge bath from the East, in the gymnasium complex

  11. Reconstruction of the plunge bath in the gymnasium complex

  12. Reconstruction and photograph of the plunge bath from the South West (summer 2007)

  13. In addition to digital models, flythroughs, QT panoramas, essays, high resolution photographs, primary and secondary source links, and extensive bibliographies that the project currently provides, Ashes2Art hopes to incorporate: • A GIS database • Online image database • Laser scans of monuments, topography, and objects in the Delphi museum • Online resource for vetting digital reconstruction projects and tools worldwide • Websites: www.coastal.edu/ashes2art orwww.clt.astate.edu/digitaldelphi/About.html

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