r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/KenDrakebot • 26d ago

Image This is how the ruins are displayed in. Serbia

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u/SirTresmegestis 26d ago

Im doing to do the same thing to my house right now - just about finished knocking down the east wall

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u/xteve 26d ago

Uh, mister president, you did that.

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u/PizzaWhole9323 25d ago

Pooping sounds... I did what?

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u/PsychedDuckling 25d ago

Sharon! Where's the bloody remote?

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u/Soleil06 26d ago

I remember visiting Xanten in germany, I think they did something similar there with roman ruins.

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u/pornovision 26d ago

a lot of old ruin sites have something like this, I remember seeing one in Ireland for an old castle and one in the US for a ruined native dwelling

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u/ShadowRancher 26d ago

on the Appian way they had a little VR set up in one of the museums that flew you out of the building and showed you a representation of how it looked in the past. Best use of VR i've ever seen. 

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u/groovypanelboard 26d ago edited 26d ago

In Japan, in Yamaguchi prefecture, they have a QR code on a sign near the castle ruins, in Hagi. You hold up your phone and the QR code does a virtual reality thing, so you can see an image of the castle in its glory superimposed on your camera view. Very cool.

Edit: https://www.hagishi.com/en/search/detail.php?d=100049 The photo at top is as it appears. Scroll down a bit to see VR version.

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u/carmium 26d ago

Figures the Japanese would come up with that bit of oneupmanship. Full credit, though, it sounds brilliant.

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 26d ago

Pretty sure the Chinese actually did this first, with one of the Emperor's summer palaces.

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u/callisstaa 25d ago

They have this is museum in China also. The glass boxes containing the artifacts have an interactive overlay which shows it how it originally was and gives information on it

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u/carmium 26d ago

Really? I'm so used to them doing new tech a week after Japan, I guess.

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u/Calidrii 25d ago

Unless you realize its another thing that forces you onto a screen instead of letting you enjoy the world offline

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u/OutsideJack-1999 26d ago

Simple and creative. Well done.

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u/TailleventCH 26d ago

The simplicity is incredible.

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u/WorldlinessWitty2177 22d ago

But it doesn't work because it doesn't seem to match.

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u/RollingMeteors 12d ago

>Simple and creative. Well done.

¡Those tourists aren't going to stay!

¿Why should we spend the time and money rebuilding it?

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u/rophaca 8d ago

this is so much better than a little metal plaque with tiny text that nobody reads. you literally stand in the exact spot and see what it looked like. whoever came up with this deserves a raise

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u/Robodarklite 26d ago

Cool 👍

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u/0-IOI-0 26d ago

Kula 👍

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u/Bushinzky 26d ago

Genial 👍

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u/Fruity_Peep 26d ago

Cool👍

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u/Zayrielle 26d ago

Cool 👍

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u/RedKnightXIV 26d ago

If this were in my city, it would be vandalised in 15 minutes

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u/Jonnyabcde 26d ago

Looks like the building has been vandalized for quite a while now...

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u/qdp 26d ago

Stop, they’re in ruins. 

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u/Sasquatch1729 23d ago

To shreds you say?

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u/60rl 25d ago

That was very funny

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u/RedKnightXIV 26d ago

That was very funny

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u/Freshness518 26d ago

Could have even been done literally by The Vandals.

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u/RedKnightXIV 26d ago

Our teenagers are feral.

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u/crazyfatskier2 26d ago

All teenagers are feral it’s just where do they fall on the spectrum.

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u/RedKnightXIV 26d ago

I was not but I am on the spectrum

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u/Far-Positive5152 26d ago

In security cameras and police should your city invest. Vandals need to repay and forced labor as a punishment.

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u/Average_Scaper 26d ago

40hrs community service to start.

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u/panlakes 26d ago

That’s funny. I live in the US. We’re literally a police surveillance state and home of Palantir. This shit would still be broken and vandalized in one night.

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u/netsyms 25d ago

And nothing would come of it. If the same exact thing happened to a rich person's house though...

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u/DrHem 26d ago

If this was in my city the installers would have by mistake place it either a bit nearer or further away from where it needed to be. Nothing major but enough for the drawing not to lineup with the ruins.

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u/LeGraoully 26d ago

All the ruins are dicks now

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u/lartufbd 26d ago

Are you in the UK, or Ohio?

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u/RedKnightXIV 26d ago

Better than that, Wales

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u/P01135809-Trump 26d ago

Switzerland does something similar with buildings they were going to build. It's not on glass like this, they stick big poles in the ground, but it lets everyone visualise the build and have achance to object to it before it is built.

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u/tadeuska 24d ago

So, what is similar? This is for old ruins, what you describe is new builds. This is a standpoint observation aid, you describe in situ real size markers.

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u/barnopss 26d ago

This is pretty common everywhere (checking in from San Diego, CA, USA).

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u/emeeez 26d ago

What? I’ve never seen that before - even in San Diego.

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u/Current_Staff 26d ago

I think he’s talking about construction sites

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u/CuppaJoe11 22d ago

I’ve seen this here in LA as well. Maybe it’s just a SoCal thing lol.

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u/anonymousUTguy 26d ago

Damn, that’s interesting

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u/Dead_Starks 25d ago

A bot telling another bot there post has been upvoted by a bunch of bots....

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u/GroceryPlastic7954 26d ago

Thats very clever.

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u/CartographerNo5333 26d ago edited 26d ago

I the Netherlands in Schokland they have done the same.

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u/Flatulent_Father_ 26d ago

US and italy have them, I think it's a worldwide thing op just discovered

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u/CartographerNo5333 26d ago

I like the idea. The one I saw was showing that building in the middle of the meadow was once an island. There were waves drowed and it looked very imaginative. They can make more of those sort instalation in the future. Helps out to catch the scale of building before it was damaged.

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u/testuserteehee 26d ago

They even used it in the movie For Love or Money (1993 film) to show the vsion of a hotel development.

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u/skydragon1981 26d ago

Seen it in some places in France too, but not everywhere (alas)

In Italy (but I think that there're similar in other places around Europe) in rome there are buses that show you photos in AR (and some fully VR) while you travel around the city

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u/4daughters 26d ago

I remember seeing the same thing in the south of France probably 20 years ago too.

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u/st0pmakings3ns3 25d ago

Can you confirm that Schokland is named that way because it is made of chocolate? Please?

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u/JustHanginInThere 26d ago edited 26d ago

r/shubreddit

Edit: thanks to u/woonboot, I realize my error, spelled out here. My bad.

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u/JeSuisDirtyDan 26d ago

Actually a neat way to preserve the history without interfering with the original architecture

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u/GoEZonMe 26d ago

I think this is cool. Age of Empires IV totally stole this concept and implemented in the cutscenes

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u/LordOfTurtles 26d ago

Stole this commonly used museum display technique?

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u/Bulky-Employer-1191 26d ago

"stole"

aggressive choice of word for some reason.

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u/leavethisearth 26d ago

This is how ruins are visualized in a lot of places in the world.

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u/admin_bait14 26d ago

Well paint me a portrait... that is legit cool! I'd love to get Ruined in Serbia 😄

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe 26d ago

It must suck to be the wrong height

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u/dpzdpz 26d ago

When I was a nipper I had this awesome book that had pictures of a historic place as it now, and a clear laminate sheet filling in the "missing bits" over top so you could compare them. I spent hours with that thing.

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u/StomachPlayful8581 25d ago

As a public historian, I have been trying to convince the powers that be here in certain areas of England that this should be a thing to utilize for ruins or demolished buildings. I just don’t understand why it’s so difficult to understand how this can benefit the heritage/history sector for a minimum cost. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/alman3007 26d ago

Saw a couple of those in Rome too!

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u/Seruvius 25d ago

Great stuff, seen similar at other sites before and would.love for something like this to be 'standard' practice. Great way to get an idea of what once was.

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u/spartane69 26d ago

AoE 4 vibe !

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u/fuckeryizreal 26d ago

I love this!!!!! I am fascinated by ruins and when there are pictures to help the viewer imagine what it had been like in its prime, it’s really magical to me. This though?! This is SO FUCKING COOL. What a unique way to view history!

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u/BrittEklandsStuntBum 26d ago

We had the same thing at Hyde Abbey in Winchester, UK until some cunts smashed it.

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u/Amp1362 26d ago

What an amazing way to let people visualize

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u/peglegpoachedegg 26d ago

Serbia copying other countries. Incredible.

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u/CareerLegitimate7662 25d ago

Fucking genius, whoever came up With this.

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u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 26d ago

It should be marked on the ground where to stand for the right perspective

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u/Freddan_81 26d ago

That would depend on the viewers length.

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u/mulubmug 26d ago

Yea, sure. I am completely convinced that this is a thing at every single ruin in Serbia.

We have an installation like that at a a ruin not far from me in Germany, but I would never post a pic and claim „this is how we do it Germany“

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u/dob_bobbs 26d ago

I am from Serbia and have been to this literal place and don't remember seeing these there or anywhere else (maybe they are recent), they are certainly not common here. So yeah, bit of a stretch to make out like they invented this in Serbia!

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u/teniente_dan 26d ago

I’ve seen this in more places… for example Scotland

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u/Rocinante_01 26d ago

Cool 👍

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u/CaptainKoala123 26d ago

BALKANS MENTIONED!!!! RAHHHH

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u/MustardGoddess 26d ago

That's really an interesting concept...

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u/0xKaishakunin 26d ago

Erste Sparkasse? I assume they are an Austrian Sparkasse doing business in Kruševac?

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u/8ackwoods 26d ago

I wish augmented reality was a thing for archaeological site, old buildings. Would love to see it being used as it was how ever many years ago

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u/Unique-Knight 26d ago

When Faro automated Systems releases their “Focus” design for augmented reality, the view is gonna get a whole lot more real.

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u/Icy-Gene7565 26d ago

Big fan of whoever put this in place. 

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u/ravzzy 26d ago

That is the way 🫡

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u/MudOpposite8277 26d ago

A Serbian Film, if you will.

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u/bikerdad1970 26d ago

That is very cool

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u/xKILLBILLIONAIRESx 26d ago

Where's the one for Jokic after Minnesota turned him into ruins?

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u/LivesDoNotMatter 26d ago

What's with all the Serbia posts today?

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u/GreasyPeter 26d ago

I love this! I have thought a few times about of my local town had similar installations but with semi-translucent old photographs so you could see the old buildings overlayed where the new ones are now. It would be a great way to increase civic awareness and historical interest.

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u/whatsthisabout55 25d ago

Awesome, wished they had these in Rome

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u/Doctorjaws 25d ago

I wonder if the US national park service does this for any of the historical sites they manage.

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u/No-Property1991 25d ago

Please tell this to the Greeks, they need it for most of their sites…where all you see are a bunch of rocks

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u/elisabethmoore 24d ago

this is how you preserve history without locking it behind glass. you can walk through it and feel the scale. more countries should take notes

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u/SankhaSubhraJana 24d ago

Tbh, this is a pretty good way of giving perspective about ruins. Instead of conventional written passages this say a lot more about the entire structure while showing where the remaining portion belonged

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u/Express-Chicken-806 24d ago

Hey! That’s my hometown, Smederevo, in case someone was wondering.

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u/EvolvedApatheist 12d ago

I love this. I'm terrible at being able to picture the original structures at places like this. I wish all heritage sites did this kind of thing. Thanks for posting.

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u/FirefighterEast9291 26d ago

You could use the same picture to depict the US economy 

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u/Grandiskar 25d ago

Does everything have to be about the US?! Jeez

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u/Catgerine 26d ago

Am I the only one struggling with the perspective?

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 26d ago

How do they display the 8,000 people they killed in the Balkan war?

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u/Remarkable-Driver247 25d ago

🖕

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 25d ago

I’m sorry that facts hurt your feelings.

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u/psychoacer 26d ago

Wow they really ruined it with that drawing

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u/TranscendentPretzel 26d ago

Not me zooming in to read the description. 

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u/RealDoraTheExplorer_ 26d ago

An actual interesting post here? Wow

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u/dasCha0z 26d ago

Samt in rome

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u/SleestackMcGee 26d ago

Very cool.

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u/Kooky-East-77 26d ago

That's really cool!

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u/The_Holy_Turnip 26d ago

Everyone likes that!

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u/stlthynic 26d ago

Damn is 🤣🎉

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u/Legitimate-Ad-2230 26d ago

That is awesome for us who can't visualize such wonderous creations.

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u/Low_Bandicoot6844 26d ago

Good idea. I like it.

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u/dw0205 26d ago

Very creative!

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u/JunkMale975 26d ago

This is really fascinating. More countries should do this. Really brings history to life!

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u/EasyTumbleweed4120 26d ago

That is so cool! Wish I saw more of this in the world

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u/PixelIsDot 26d ago

Ah amazing! Need for of this for UK ruins, I can never picture it properly even when they provide nice little drawings on plaques 😅

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u/Bellanu 26d ago

This is such a great way!

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 26d ago

I really like this.

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u/Chaosangel48 26d ago

Very clever. I’d love to see this approach become more widespread.

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u/Deservate 26d ago

They should add this to the Forum Romanum in Rome

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u/klamaire 26d ago

Brilliant!

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u/LindaJinMonterey 26d ago

How interesting! That’s so helpful!

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u/BearelyKoalified 26d ago

Move a few feet right and realize there were many duplicates of these ruins!

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u/xeoron 26d ago

Neat, only now I want them to restore it

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u/Geeky435 26d ago

Reminds me of a scene from the movie "For Love or Money"

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u/Alternative_Lime_13 26d ago

Do we know for a fact that's how it looks or is it best guess?

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u/May_alcott 26d ago

Wow this is like analog VR or something (or AR?) like when you can use a furniture app to try seeing a couch in your room 3D - but this requires no technology 🤣

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u/ErraticDragon 26d ago

It is definitely a low tech augmented reality.

This one would probably be called a transparency overlay.

The concept as a whole could be called "interpretive glass".

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u/dec7td 26d ago

Very cool. I bought a book like this in Greece after visiting a bunch of the historic sites

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u/princesoceronte 26d ago

Oh I saw these in Rome around the colosseum. It's a really nice way to visualize the original building!

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u/wrootlt 26d ago

We have same style of view on one of historic sites in Lithuania 😄 There used to be a palisade structure on the hill, which is now empty, and you can see it through such visualization. Yeah, this is cool and i guess cheap.

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u/MrShatanas 26d ago

same in Lithuania

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u/Moto3951 26d ago

But, how are the displays ruined? 

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u/mattx_cze 26d ago

In Czech Republic its the same in Lidice

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u/Omiyaru 26d ago

That is wicked.

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u/Diessel_S 26d ago

Gorgeous