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Citadel of Bam, Iran: News

2015-01-10

We exhibited our project at Toyo Bunko Museum "Islam" starting from today (Exhibition of Digital Cultural Heritage in a Real Space).

2015-01-05

Citadel and Major Buildings in Districts was released.

2014-02-24

International Symposium 2014 was introduced : (1) NHK news A Ruin Demolished by an Earthquake Reconstructed by Computer Graphics (in Japanese). (2) University of Tehran (in Iranian). (3) Embassy of Japan in Iran Seminar on the Restoration of Arg-e-Bam using 3D technology (in Japanese)

2014-02-23

To memorize the 10th anniversary, and the completion of the main part of 3D models, international symposium 2014 and exhibition was held at Tehran University.

2013-12-26

On the 10th anniversary of Bam Earthquake, we uploaded three videos to YouTube Digital Silk Road Channel selected from our collection, 3D CG Reconstruction: Introductory Walk-through Video.

2013-12-02

Bam3DCG was updated to include new data from the recent progress of our research.

2012-06-05

Three new videos were added to 3D CG Reconstruction: Introductory Walk-through Video, now providing five videos in total for viewing.

2011-07-27

A walkthrough video on three dimensinoal computer graphics reconstruction is released.

2011-06-01

An introductory video on three dimensinoal computer graphics reconstruction is released.

2008-12-26

Just before the 5th anniversary of the earthquake, a new Website Bam3DCG is released for the dissemination of research results. Some video can be seen from Virtual Reality.

2007-12-26

This project was introduced in NHK Ohayo Nippon (December 26, 2007) with the title "Iran, a historical site is being reconstructed by CG."

2007-09-11

Mainichi Weekly on September 15, 2007, the project was introduced in the article Arg-e Bam: Heritage reclaimed from rubble.

2006-08-02

Aurel Stein's Visit to Bam in 1930s is opened.

2006-06-19

We received 32 pictures from France that were taken before the earthquake.

2006-06-07

We opened a page on Virtual Reality.

2006-05-02

In NHK General TV program, May 4 (Thu) 18:10-18:39, the project will be introduced in SOS from World Heritage (in Japanese).

2005-11-04

We received 24 pictures from Japan taken before the earthquake. We also added 43 pictures taken when the DSR team visited Bam on September 2005.

2005-02-01

The activity of Elham Andaroodi appeared in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Culture Section, December 21, 2004 (in Japanese).

2005-01-30

We received 18 pictures from Japan, and the image collection exceeded one hundred pictures.

2005-01-03

We received 24 pictures from Japan.

2004-07-19

The activity related to this web site was introduced by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in a special TV program about UNESCO world heritage.

2004-04-13

A new movie (1 item) and photographs (14 items) have arrived from Czech. In particular, the movie is a great work whose length is more than 5 minutes. Please have a look.

2004-02-29

We added 5 pictures. The policy for the maintenance of data is also described more clearly.

2004-01-22

We added 27 pictures from contributors. We are still in need for the contribution of the photographs.

2004-01-14

QuickBird satellite images from DigitalGlobe (Distribution Hitachi Software) captured the change of the Citadel of Bam between before and after the earthquake. We updated those very high resolution satellite images in Satellite Images Before and After the Earthquake.

2004-01-13

We added two pictures contributed from various people and organizations. We are still in need for the contribution of the photographs.

2004-01-12

We added eight pictures contributed from various people and organizations. We are still in need for the contribution of the photographs.

2004-01-06

An IKONOS satellite image from Space Imaging, Inc. after the earthquake is added on the web page.

2003-12-31

In response to the destruction of the Citadel and the town of Bam by the earthquake, we started the web site Citadel of Bam, Iran: Keeping Records to Get over the Earthquake.

2003-12-26

Earthquake occurred near Bam, Iran, and the Citadel of Bam was almost completely collapsed.

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