Archive - Aosta Augusta Praetoria

This product allows for interactive free exploration of a first model of the roman city of Aosta on a standard personal computer. The age is that described by the historian Strabone, of the first century after Christ. The city had been just founded in the place where Varrone had his headquarters. The reconstructed area covers the surroundings of the city, the walls and the internal insulae (blocks). The walls ring was 730 meters by 560, with twelve towers, an area of 42 hectars was inside, divided in 64 blocks.

A selection of images directly taken from the PC screen, this digital model is interactively explored in real-time on a standard personal with Pentium IV 2Ghz, 512Mb RAM and 64Mb video card.


The city	the main door: Porta Praetoria	a corner..	...the wall	the other wall corner	the amphiteather


side by side with the amphiteather...	...there was the teather...	...on the side of the Porta Praetoria door	The entrance...	...leading to the Decumano (main street)	Aulo Terenzio Varrone (from the animated 3D video DVD)


the deal between the Salassi tribe and the romans (from the animated 3D video DVD)	start of the roman headquarters (dfrom the animated 3D video DVD)	new soldiers arrive...	...houses are built...	...walls are built...	...and doors


the model used to show how roman cities were built around the Decumano...	...and Cardo main streets	main steets and doors	construction of Porta Praetoria (from the animated 3D video DVD)	this model has rquested many researches	Porta Praetoria today


one of the towers today, with medioeval modifications	the yard inside Porta Praetoria in the 3D model	the inside today	Porta Praetoria in the first century AC...	...and today	the teather model


wireframe structure of the teather	the teather today	inside the teather	entrance of the teather	the area between teather and amphiteather	the walls today


the amphiteather	amphiteather wireframe structure

Project presentations for Virtuality 2004

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