Rebuilding the Afghan Buddha Statues

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.

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May 24, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Rebirth of the Afghan Buddhas

Sunday, May 19, 2002 in Wired

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