For most student students, “explore the past” means “wading through data debris.” But a digital archaeologist Marcus Abbot wants to make an early history of human civilization freely accessible to anyone who wants to explore it. And first with his goal he chose a 3,000-year-old temple in the swamps of Eastern England.
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Abbot is a professional archaeologist from Britain, where he works. over the creation of modern technological approaches to hundreds archaeological sites of this country. In 2012, he helped discover previously unknown letters written on Stonehenge frayed stones, thanks to the use of laser scanner. Abbot uses 3D scanners, lidars, and 3D modeling to uncover new archaeological evidence objects that are considered well-studied – the last of which became Flag Fen, a place of spiritual worship of the Bronze Age century.
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Abbott spent hundreds of hours to recreate the landscape and buildings around Flag Fen, which was inhabited by several thousand years ago by the early Britons who gave this place a special spiritual meaning. Abbott used paleo data to create an approximate model of what this area looked like before. Then he added round houses, wooden platforms, paths, fences and dams in full accordance with the available archaeological evidence.
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Thanks to the financial campaign on Kickstarter, Abbot received the money he needs – it’s 800 pounds – and now plans use this money to turn your three-dimensional model into something social and easily accessible. “Now this three-dimensional world is on my hard drive, and therefore it’s not accessible to people, ” he says. “I think the next logical step is to make this public virtual reality model, and that’s what this is about my whole project. ”
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Abbot is currently developing a rough historical a line that would draw virtual explorers through the Flag Hair dryer, but they will have the opportunity to explore these swamps and on their own – as if they were suddenly inside computer game adventure. He also continues to develop conceptual details of the final product, such as a timeline, which will allow researchers to switch between historical eras from the ice age to the present day. Another important component The product is sound. Abbot hopes to create an appropriate an era of sound landscape that will give even greater credibility historical surroundings.
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And in the end, if the Flag Fen project turns out to be successful, he plans to develop models for other archaeological objects. In the meantime, you can see the renders already published this ambitious project.
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