Rebuilding the Afghan Buddha Statues
24 May 2002 - 12:00pm
With the help of advanced 3-D computer modeling techniques, researchers at a Swiss university have created digitized reconstruction images of the ancient statues destroyed in Afghanistan.
"The age-old Buddhas at Bamiyan in northern Afghanistan...proved powerless against the destructive zealotry of the Taliban regime... Using the latest in 3-D computer modeling techniques, Professor Armin Grün and his team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, have painstakingly reconstructed images of the Buddhas, destroyed in March 2001."
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Wired, May 19, 2002
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