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Deconstructing Virtual Angkor Wat

For this most recent assignment, I decided to write my “deconstruction” of a Digital Humanities project on a virtual version of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world and located in Cambodia (you can access the project here). The temple complex was built in the 12th century in what is now northwest Cambodia […]

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Reverse Engineering Virtual Angkor

Virtual Angkor is the result of the collaboration between Archaeologists, Historians, and Virtual History Specialists, likely in the spirit of scholarly collaboration under the wings of SensiLab at Monash University in Australia. Targeted towards educators, it was created to unfurl the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor before the eyes of students, it’s a three-dimensional world that […]

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Week 2: How it Works (Front End)

Unpacking Virtual Angkor

Virtual Angkor is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Tom Chandler, Adam Clulow, Bernard Keo, Mike Yeates and Martin Polkinghorne, “Virtual Angkor”, 2018, virtualangkor.com.Posner, Miriam. “How Did They Make That?” Designed primarily as an educational tool to transport students into a […]

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Explore Virtual Angkor

Virtual Angkor is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Built for the classroom, it has been created to take students into a 3D world and to use this simulation to ask questions about Angkor’s place in larger networks of trade and […]

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