The magic of Amphipolis: The artists who created the 3D video

The Livescinece spoke with the two Greek authors who created a series of 3D video in which depicted the Interior of the Tomb, According to the discoveries of archaeologists and what gave the publicity through photographs.

As stated in article, the alluring ruins of Amphipolis caused media frenzy in all of the world that made consecutive live links from the site. The same happened in social networks and with the videos that were made to represent, as more details become, How exactly was the Tomb several centuries before. It is no coincidence that if anyone on YouTube typed the name "Amphipolis ' will find numerous videos – other amateur and other worked up to the last detail as their creators have used all the latest achievements of computer science. It is characteristic that none of these videos "virtual world" is not linked to the Ministry of culture. Everything came from the enthusiasm and interest of their creators.

One of them is Nick Alexandrou who lives in Rome, but echeri born in a nearby area with Amphipolis. Speaking at Live Science explained how the first video he did for personal use. Last July the Alexander graduated from the University of L'Aquila in Italy by master. It is now a civil engineer specializing in architectural works. The same period Greece stirred by a cheery new that focused the Amphipolis and there finds. Alexander says that before he made the video for Amphipolis, had created three-dimensional renderings for buildings, but never for archaeological ruins. This, combined with the impressive ruins of Amphipolis gave him the motivation to try. "I thought it would be something great for promoting our Greek heritage. So I decided to fix it and upload it on YouTube. I'm happy with the score and I thought that surely will find plenty that will be interested to see my model ". The first video was posted in mid-October and until now has 200.000 views. Indeed, accepted requests from fans of his work, try to do recovery of broken arms Karyatidon and complement of the section of the amazing missing mosaic. So he entered into this process as far as possible by restoring the monument and give some modern touches to the existing creature.

The second attempted to do a professional job was the artist Dimitris Tsalkanis who resides in Athens. The Tsalkanis created a website (www.ancientathens3d.com), through which it shared with the world his own depictions of ancient Athens. For him the Amphipolis was an interesting challenge and so on 13 December loaded the first video. In accordance with its own Visual models are an artistic rather than archaeological representation. So it worked more freely and added some touches of color on the statues of Sphinxes and Tomb. However, pointed out that his choices were based on studies about the colors used by the Greeks during the period.

When Dimitri Aggeloydi, web developer, This trend shows the interest of the Greeks to see the monument under another light. He worked closely with amfipoli-news.com site, in which there are 3D representations of the mound, and virtual tour. The site "climbed" in October in collaboration with Panagiotis Panagiotou, student, University of Thessaloniki.

The Tsalkanis acknowledges that the controversies surrounding the Amphipolis weighed in as he was making the video. "It shocked me the situation, However the effect that had the monument in society was interesting. I think the video shows how it was made, But how discovered the monument». The Alexander prefers another aspect: "If we do not use these discoveries now, When I do; Κάθε αρχαιολογική ανακάλυψη είναι ένα βοήθημα προς εμάς από τους Αρχαίους Έλληνες».

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