At Melbourne's Immigration Museum, there was a special exhibit called PLACE: Hampi. This was an amazing, mindblowing piece. South India was relatively cossetted from the marauding morons who destroyed pretty much all the old architecture up North, but Hampi eventually fell. It is remarkable how much has somehow survived without any institutional efforts at preservation.
Anyway, an Australian team has been involved in restoring and documenting the Hampi ruins for a couple of decades. Using all that information, they have constructed a 3-Dimensional exhibit. Here is how it works:
You get on a semi-circular platform with some controls, sort of like a steering wheel and zoom in/out buttons. You pick a scene or a monument, and you literally get to view it from all angles, courtesy of dorky 3-D glasses. This is a fantastic way to bring things to museum-goers and I can't wait to see developments like these enrich our lives more. I am, of course, thinking of porn.
Hats off to the creators of the exhibit.
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