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Article: Rome reborn.(INFO ZONE)(new computer simulation )
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- WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2007
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Friends, Romans, schoolchildren, lend me your ears! We come to tell you about a new computer program that re-creates the ancient city of Rome.
Scientists based at the University of Virginia recently created Rome Reborn, a 3-D computer model of Julius Caesar's hometown. It's the world's largest computer simulation, or copy, of an ancient city.
Just like Rome, this high-tech city wasn't built in a day. It took computer scientists more than 10 years to create the model. They pored over hundreds of maps and pictures to reproduce more than 7,000 sites. The cyber city is set in A.D. 320, when Rome was at its peak. At that time, more than 1 million people ...