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Zhang Fei Temple Digitally Remastered

Posted by michael on from the blinded-me-with-science dept.

gtaylor writes: "The Globe and Mail reports that the Three Gorges Zhang Fei Temple in China will be disassembled before the Three Gorges dam is completed (which will flood the area where the temple stands now), and reassembled somewhere drier. Meanwhile, the Canadian National Research Council has sent over some techs who have scanned the whole complex into super-accurate 3-D models as to be sure of rebuilding the temples precisely as they were."

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  1. CU Research Project by Tazzy531 · · Score: 3, Informative

    My CS professor has been researching the same technology however, his puts the entire laser apparatus on a robotic vehicle that is completely/near-completely autonomous. He recently got a $2 million NSF grant to do the same digitization of Egypts pyramids.

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  2. Re:Units confusion by Tazzy531 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry to disappoint you, but the majority of the world uses Metric system. In fact, US and England are the few countries that use Unit system. In addition, most scientific measurements are made in metric. NASA/JPL was the one that messed up when they used unit system by mistake. I think after that fiasco, they banned unit measurements and unit measuring tools from NASA

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  3. Who Zhang Fei Was by robbyjo · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to know who Zhang Fei was in detail, click here for the story of the Three Kingdoms.

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  4. More information on the NRC scanning. by mdemeny · · Score: 4, Informative
    The National Research Council (NRC) spun off a few companies based upon pretty much the same technology (Arius 3D, Hymark, etc.)

    If you're looking for actual 3D models to view (in VRML) made using this (or similar) technology visit: The AMUSE Project. It contains 61 3D digital representations of various aboriginal artifacts. Very cool stuff.

    The actual scanning resolution is much higher than what you see on the web, of course. The native resolution is incredible.

    (Now assuming a certain friend of mine sees this, you'll get a better explanation since he actually worked for one of those companies...)