{"id":21444,"date":"2019-01-26T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21444"},"modified":"2019-01-26T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T16:14:07","slug":"3d-animated-history-of-paris-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21444","title":{"rendered":"3D Animated History of Paris published"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"website\"<\/a>A 3D Animated History of Paris made over two years with input from many experts on the history of Paris: Take a Visual Journey from Ancient Times to the World\u2019s Fair of 1889.<\/h3>\n

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Open Culture<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

\u2018And this too,\u2019 muses Marlow as he floats down the Thames in Joseph Conrad\u2019s Heart of Darkness, \u2018has been one of the dark places on earth.\u2019 Whole theses have been written on the meaning of this statement. We can simply take it to mean that before London was London, it was just another obscure, humble town of ordinary farmers and artisans. That is, before the Romans came. So too Paris. One of the world\u2019s most famous cities got its start as a cluster of humble huts, walled compounds, and low, wooden buildings with thatched roofs and fenced-in pastures\u2014the settlement of a Celtic tribe known as the Parisii, who began inhabiting the region sometime in the 3rd century, BCE. In the first century, the Romans conquered and settled what would become the Left Bank, and began to build an impressive, prosperous city with a forum, temples, bathhouses, and theaters.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The Roman town was first called Lutetia (or Luticia Parisiorum) and the central forum, in French, the Forum de Lut\u00e8ce. Christianity came in the 3rd century, supposedly by way of Saint Denis, whom the Romans beheaded on the hill later known as Mons Martyrum (\u201cHill of the Martyrs\u201d)\u2014later still, Montmartre. Then came the Franks in the 5th century, establishing the Merovingian dynasty under Clovis in 508 and bringing with them Frankish speech, and later the Francien dialect of \u00cele-de-France\u2026.<\/p>\n

The rest\u2014in broad outline or fine detail\u2014you may know\u2026<\/p>\n

The project \u2018required the work of over 40 people, including numerous experts about Paris\u2019s history, for more than two years.\u2019 By 2013, it covered the city\u2019s \u201918,000 listed monuments\u2019 with a website, free iPad app, and augmented reality book. Unfortunately, the features of its web application seem to have been disabled and its app seems unavailable, at least in the U.S. Still\u2014like the virtual 3d videos of Rome we\u2019ve featured recently\u2014the promo video above offers some impressive, beautifully-rendered reconstructions of the city one-thousand, fifteen hundred, and over two thousand years ago.<\/p>\n

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