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Greek Statues Imported into Virtual World

victory of SamothraceThe virtual design firm MellaniumM has developed a program which imports extremely detailed objects into spaces running on the AvayaLive Engage browser-based virtual world platform.  To demonstrate its program to the public, the company has imported two of the well-known statues of ancient Greece, Aphrodite of Milos and Winged Victory of Samothrace.

The mesh models for the two Greek statues became available late last year, when the artist Cosmo Wenman uploaded highly detailed 3D scans of the statues to the MarketBot Thingiverse, 3D design and printing community under a Creative Commons license. The two uploaded mesh models were composed of 20 million polygons each which made them too large for import.

MellaniuM converted these models into a format and size so that they could be used in AvayaLive Engage. They are accessible to the public at ArtGallery25 on the AvayaLive Engage platform through a browser-based viewer.

These two models are now composed by approximately  850,000 polygons. “Most game designers would state categorically that models with over 64,000 polygons simply cannot be imported into a gaming engine,” said MellaniuM Chief Technology Officer, Mark Melaney. “This may be true in a certain sense but we have developed a procedure to unite sections of larger mesh models to circumvent this limitation,” he added.

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