Stanford Report, April 19, 2004

Levoy describes how algorithms match ancient map’s fragments

Marc Levoy, Stanford associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, is using 3-D graphics technology to better understand a map of third-century Rome. The result is one of the largest public archives of digital models of a cultural artifact ever produced. Collaborators on the Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project include the computer science and classics departments at Stanford along with scholars of antiquity and museum officials in Italy.

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