My MA thesis is finished!

No funny title today.

I'm currently trying to finish my MA Computer Graphics studies and after months of struggle, I managed to wrangle my thesis into existence.

The topic is "Digital Reconstruction of Archaeological Finds" and here's the abstract:

This thesis defines archaeological reconstruction and describes its history
and evolution. It explores the use of computers in reconstruction and lists
currently used techniques and methods. Romanian archaeology and a brief
historical summary of the ancient Dacian people are discussed with Romanian
archaeologists. The practical part presents the results of attempted reconstructions
of Dacian archaeological finds supplied by Romanian archaeologists.
Various freely available applications suitable for reconstruction were
tested and their performance compared. The thesis also suggests possible
course of further research and development of digital reconstruction.

I know, it's so DRY and boring.
You can download the whole text (with pictures too!) here: http://pospabr.sweb.cz/dpJanPospisil.pdf

Anyway, as part of the thesis I also did a painting.

It shows a family of Comati (or Komatai), ancient Dacian commoners. If you want to know more, check out the link above. :)

Clever blog post title

Not much yappin' today, mostly art!

Did you know that roughly (a couple of years here and there) at the time Caesar got stabbed in the Forum, something similar happened to Burebista - a Geto-Dacian king who united the various Dacian tribes?
(he was so busy fortifying his kingdom against a quite possible roman invasion that he totally missed a conspiracy by a group of unhappy chieftains)
(yep, I'm doing reading on Dacians because of my thesis. Very cool stuff.)

DRAWINGS NAO!

(more fairly quick encounter paintings for TLD. First two are shown when you're defeated as human or orc, other two are victory screens for orcs and dwarves.)

Now dinner and paint some more. Byeeee!