The creation of this research was born out interest in creating the art carved sandstone into Buddha statue found area Phayao Province, which part Lanna Kingdom that prospered during 19th-23rd Buddhist century. In province, created is an and valuable artistic feature has been shown until now. There are five categories sand stone style studied classified have distinctive characteristics each sta...

6 January/February 1999 Michelangelo carved his “Florentine Pietà” (Figure 1), the second of three Pietà statues, from a single block of marble while in his 70s. The piece includes posed figures of Christ in the arms of the Virgin Mary, Nicodemus (properly Joseph of Arimathea) looking on, and Christ touching Mary Magdelene. The statue was thought to be for the artist’s tomb. Two years after he ...

In this paper we describe a 3D scanning software suite which gives support to most of the processing phases of a complex 3D scanning project. In particular, our tools support: range maps alignment, range maps merge, mesh editing and mesh simplification. The software suite has been implemented by scratch and encompasses both up-to-date solutions (alignment, editing) and some original methods (me...

3D documentation and visualization of Cultural Heritage and Arts objects is an expanding application area. The selection of the right technology for these kinds of applications is very important and strictly related to the project requirements, budget and user’s experience. In this contribution, we report our experience in the 3D digitization of three objects: a Herakles statue, a Khmer head an...

The Daily Ritual was one of a series of cultic rituals performed for the statue of the god by temple priests each day. Performed in the morning after the fi rst light of dawn, it was complemented by similar but more abbreviated rituals in the afternoon and evening. The Egyptians believed that the gods themselves had established the correct form of the rituals, and along with the celebration of ...

This paper studied the chronic fatigue induced by excessive exercise and the restoration effects of Astragalus polysaccharides (APS) on mitochondria. In vivo, we found that excessive exercise could cause oxidative stress statue which led to morphological and functional changes of mitochondria. The changes, including imbalance between mitochondria fusion-fission processes, activation of mitophag...