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This is really cool. Seeing these beautiful colors I realize how much how I imagine the ancient world is shaped by museum artifacts and photos in textbooks, whi
by stackbutterflow 4y ago
This is really cool. Seeing these beautiful colors I realize how much how I imagine the ancient world is shaped by museum artifacts and photos in textbooks, which show raw and brown/grey/white stones, rusty tools and weapons. I've grown thinking about pre-medieval times as a landscape of ruins. It would be like if future humans were picturing our current world as nothing but bombed cities.
It's a really cool project. Now I want a VR game where I could simply walk around ancient cities and watch people go about their day.
- stavros 4y agoI was thinking the same thing, "I thought these civilizations only built ruins".
- cm2187 4y agoThere won’t be much left of our civilisation. I was told recently that concrete is acidic and attacks the metal netting in reinforced concrete over the long time. None of our structures will still be up 500 years from now.
- flyinglizard 4y agoAssassins Creed gives you that everyday historical vibe very well. Highly recommend.
- UberFly 4y agoI couldn't agree more. I'm currently playing AC Odyssey and it's as close as you can get to being there. Lots of artistic license but they definitely did their research.
- phasersout 4y agoCan recommend Origins as well, riding past the pyramids has something pretty cool about it...
- vanderZwan 4y ago> I've grown thinking about pre-medieval times as a landscape of ruins. Jimmy Carr joked about that in QI once, how movies and series set in ancient Rome and Greece also tend to do this. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rbknKBJvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rbknKBJvc
- marginalia_nu 4y agoIn aegyptus they'd be sort of right. The Egyptian ruins were as old to them as Roman ruins are to us.
- leeoniya 4y ago"This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"
- vanderZwan 4y agoSorry about that. I looked for official clips (it's just before a relatively famous segment) but they don't include the Jimmy Carr joke
- mercer 4y agoThey do say that about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is!
- psyklic 4y agoAssassins Creed has a standalone series called Discovery Tour. It is extremely similar yet has freemode, way more historical points of interest, and has people walking around. https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery-tour https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery...
- tommica 4y agoThanks for sharing this, never knew these existed - gonna be great to go through them!
- shadowofneptune 4y agoNow imagine for a moment if we painted our modern marble statues and architecture as they did. The ruins mentality is a big part of neoclassicism, to the point where the designer of the Bank of England building made a sketch of how the building would look in a thousand years' time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Aerial_cutaway_view_of_Soane%27s_Bank_of_England_by_JM_Gandy_1830.jpg/1920px-Aerial_cutaway_view_of_Soane%27s_Bank_of_England_by_JM_Gandy_1830.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Ae...
- fnord123 4y agoCrikey the Royal Exchange is a crater.
- _fat_santa 4y agoSpeaking of painting sculptures, I wonder why they never try to re-paint Greek and Roman sculptures. I've read some articles that show what the statues would have looked like back in the day and paint makes them look spectacular.
- whermans 4y agoWhen you visit Persepolis, you can rent a VR headset and see certain parts of the site reconstructed in VR. It's really impressive and drives home the scale of what was built.
- benbreen 4y agoInteresting! I went five years ago and didn’t see it there. It’s a great idea though. Did you go more recently or did we just miss it? The nearby Naqsh-e Rostam (tombs of Darius and Xerxes among other things) was also stunning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Rostam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Rostam
- whermans 4y agoI visited Persepolis (and the tombs) in Spring 2019.
- behnamoh 4y agoIt's cool indeed. But I find it sad that such a tremendous piece of architecture is not listed on the world's 7 ancient wonders while the Temple of Artemis and other Greek structures are on the list. No surprises there, given that the list was created by the Greek historian Herodotus.
- simplicio 4y agoPretty sure the canonical list of Wonders isn't due to Herodotus, as several of the items on it were built after his death. (apparently Herodotus also had a list of wonders, but it didn't survive. Given his interest in Persia though, I suspect it would've had several Persian monuments on it)
- junon 4y agoNot exactly what you're looking for but if you're just into aesthetic look up Talos Principle. By itself a fantastic game, but they have a VR version as well that is incredible to walk through.
- holoduke 4y agoI am convinced that one day you visit an old ancient site. You put on the AR/VR headset and the real-life ruins change into fresh newly constructed buildings with NPCs from that time. The headset/lenses have a pair of 32k displays with a vof wider than your eyes. Graphics are rendered with 100 trillion rays per frame at 240fps. About 10.000 times faster than current hardware.
- skocznymroczny 4y agoThat's why any colors that have been preserved looks so great. Whether it's the temple of Medinet Habu in Egypt or the tombs of the builders, it blows your mind when you realize all those decorations in the temples were not only carved, but painted too.