New technologies for a multimedia project: the virtual reconstruction of the Ancient Rome in the fourth century A.C

Abstract

When computer centers were created, they were dedicated to program and make calculation only. On another hand, other services were in charge of the audiovisual areas, printing works, networks and so on. . . In the mid eighties, with the emergence of office automation and networks, the French Universities had to recognize the importance of the « Centre of Computer Resources », and the border between data procession and other technologies was not as clear as it used to be. The same kind of evolution happened in other fields. Nowadays, the PABX (Private Automatic Branch eXchange) use computers and the printing industry does the same with many different software packages.