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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. 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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  2. 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...)

  3. Re:Abu Simbel by Krelnik · · Score: 5, Interesting
    > They did the same thing some 40 years ago in Egypt, at the temple of Abu Simbel built
    > by Ramses the Great. When the Aswan High Dam was about to be built, engineers realized
    > the temple would be buried under all of the water flow. So, it was moved to a higher
    > location that would be safer. Of course, they did that without the use of
    > supercomputers and 3D modelling

    I was gonna mention that but you beat me to it. I remember being fascinated as a kid reading the National Geographic article where they showed the whole project in detail. Each block was carefully sliced out of the mountain and numbered for reassembly.

    Here's a good link with lots of pictures of Abu Simbel.