Visualisations of Parthenon

All of this post was done from 1st to 5th February  2011, rendered in AutoCad 2008

Rendered Parthenon's video with these configurations:

• Length: 25 seconds
• Resolution: 320 x 240
• Frames per second: 29
• Size: 14,6 MB
• Type: AVI video format
• Rendering time: 52 hours 23 minutes

   The main topics of this post is Parthenon, rendering and AutoCad :

• The Parthenon is a temple in the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their protector. Its construction began in 447 BC and was completed in 438 BC, although decorations of the Parthenon continued until 432 BC. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of Greek art. The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece and of Athenian democracy and one of the world's greatest cultural monuments.
• Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file), by means of computer programs. A scene file contains objects in a strictly defined language or data structure; it would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information as a description of the virtual scene. The data contained in the scene file is then passed to a rendering program to be processed and output to a digital image or raster graphics image file.With the increasing sophistication of computer graphics about 1970s onward, the term “rendering” has appeared.
• AutoCAD is a CAD (Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting) software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting. It is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. First released in December 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, notably the IBM PC.
     

   I just wanna say some words before you look all over this post. These visualisations were made in AutoCad 2008 and the Parthenon is not perfectly detailed as I would like to but I adjusted as much details as my computers capacity granted me an authorization. But at least I tryed to  render these pictures at maximum quality. Below each image there will be a short rendering information .

My laptop’s  specifications (these ones concerns rendering):

Windows Vista Home Premium

Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00 GHz

Memory (RAM): 2.00 GB

System type: 32-bit Operating System

Front elevation, view from bottom, humans view

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation
Rendering time: 1 hour 14 minutes

Front elevation, top view, King Kong's view

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation
Rendering time: 54 minutes

Front elevation, Human's view

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation
Rendering time: 57

Approaching to three-quarter view, human's view

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation
Rendering time: 59 minutes

Approaching to three-quarter view, expanded in regard to images border, Hulks view

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation
Rendering time: 49 

Still approaching to three-quarter view, Jerry's view (I'm sure Tom is behind him ready for action)

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation
Rendering time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Approximate three-quarter view, Transformers view

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation
Rendering time: 1 hour 24 minutes

Passing three-quarter view, Things view (Fantastif four)

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 1 hour 29 minutes

Side-view, Batman's view

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 1 hour 13 minutes

Side-view, scaled up

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 56 minutes

Side-view, scaled up

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 1 hour 6 minutes

Side-view, scaled up at metopes level

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 1 hour 6 minutes

Frontal elevation, scaled up upward to columns, humans admirable view
Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 1 hour 9 minutes

Scaled up to corner, humans view from ladder when he is upstairs
Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 55 minutes

Scaled three-quarter corners view, he is still there
Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 58 minutes

Frontal elevation, scaled corner view
Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 54 minutes

Frontal elevation view, scaled ridge
Resolution: 1024 x 768

Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 46 minutes

Upward view, laying human
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Quality: presentation

Rendering time: 1 hour 26 minutes

That's all folks!
For a while...