BENEFITS OF UTILIZING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Safety of the Artifacts Themselves

3D Scanners

Non-Contact Technique

Entirely Objective

Mapping Archaeological Sites

Scanning Artifacts

More Efficient Discourse

Innovative Techniques and Methodologies

Visually simulate effects over time

Restoration and Reconstruction

Quantitative analyses

Easier to share information

Image vs. Text

People naturally enjoy pictures more than text

Text is linear

Villa of Livia

Archaeological Context

Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-up Methodologies

Nu.M.E.

Purpose was to visualize the changes in the city of Bologna over time from the 13th Century to the Present

Allows user to see the city of Bologna as it did to its inhabitants