Populating Ancient Pompeii with Crowds of Virtual Romans

Pompeii was a Roman city, destroyed and completely buried during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius.
We have revived its past by creating a 3D model of its previous appearance and populated it with crowds of Virtual
Romans. In this paper, we detail the process, based on archaeological data, to simulate ancient Pompeii life in real
time. In a first step, an annotated city model is generated using procedural modelling. These annotations contain
semantic data, such as land usage, building age, and window/door labels. In a second phase, the semantics are
automatically interpreted to populate the scene and trigger special behaviors in the crowd, depending on the
location of the characters. Finally, we describe the system pipeline, which allows for the simulation of thousands
of Virtual Romans in real time.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• virtual
• crowd
• pompeii
• romans
• computer
• graphics

[Truthiness231]

ROFLMFAO ^.^

[Ancientvine]

This is amazing. As is the the construction of the town (I read about it on your website or somewhere on the web.) Are you using some sort of super computer for this?