Buddha statue, relief, and corridor, Borobudur Temple, IndonesiaPan et al. 2021, Remote Sensing
Posted on 11/12/2024 4:03:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and their colleagues developed a neural network that they used to create a detailed, digital 3-D model of an eighth- to ninth-century relief at Indonesia's Borobudur Temple. Located on the temple's ground level, the sculptural panel was photographed 134 years ago before it was covered with reinforcement walls. The nineteenth-century black-and-white photograph shows a group of people set against a backdrop of trees and buildings. Artificial intelligence was able to identify "soft edges" in the photograph and thereby recreate the sculpture's curves and textures. "Through computer visualization and virtual reality, our research now allows virtual exploration of these unseen treasures," Tanaka said. Read the original scholarly article about this research in MM '24: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
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Buddha statue, relief, and corridor, Borobudur Temple, IndonesiaPan et al. 2021, Remote Sensing
[snip] A Borobudur ship is an 8th to 9th-century wooden double outrigger sailing vessel of Maritime Southeast Asia, depicted in some bas-reliefs of the Borobudur Buddhist monument in Central Java, Indonesia.[1] It is a ship of the Javanese people, and derivative vessels of similar size continued to be used in East Java coastal trade at least until the 1940s.[2] [/snip]
(The Borobudur ship is seen in the above graphic from the Archaeology article)https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borobudur_ship.JPG
Beautiful relief depicting a ship CENTURIES ahead of its’ time.
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Bizarre
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Thank you for posting.
My pleasure!
“Borobudur” is the sound models make when they have these swimsuit shoots in freezing weather.
I have been there. Fascinating temple.
It’s remarkable how many very large sites (and not just in the orient) were built lickity-split, and thrived for varied lengths of time, then just faded out and were abandoned.
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