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03.20.08Archaeology and Google Earth: Building Past Virtual WorldsAn archaelogist has created GEPublish, a "real hack" which integrates 3D models with Google Earth and creates a virtual environment with the added feature that it shows processes over time. As he explains the work: One of our main goals is to have something like a 4D GIS system (which means real 3D models with complex geometry + textures + the possibility to use time attributes) to show architectural or urban development and future plans: processes in time and space... So when GE integrated COLLADA support we were very excited that we can now publish complex reconstructions. The 3D polygons that were ...
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