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JMZ schrieb:
> 3BE588FA.DC9CAB81@ndh.net...
> > No, that's not Balkh, it's somewhere in south-western Turkmenistan, east
> of
> > that would be ancient
> > Merv... Balkh is located in northern Afghanistan!
>
> Sure, ruins of Balkh (Bactres in French) are at
> 10 kilometers on the west of Mazar e Sharif.
> But I have some difficults to point the nail
> at the exact place...
>
Have you ever been there - perhaps back in the 70s, as a shaggy hippie with
flowing mane on the Magic Highway to India?
Though I never had the chance to visit the country, I'm an Afghanistan geek
myself (see also my signature) and toyed for years with the idea of pre-war
Afghanistan as a raytraced 3D world... currently I'm working on the region
between Kandahar and the Pakistani border, based on a scanned topographic map
at a scale of 1:300.000. Cumbersome work, more than 4 million pixels have to
be set manually to make the heightfield...
See you in Khyberspace - http://www.geocities.com/electricafghan/index-e.html
Afghanistan Chronicle: http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/
Yadgar - Cologne, Germany
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Unhappily, I've never visit Afghanistan, but
I've begin study the Balkh History, from
Greek Empire (and before) to Tamerlan [TimurLeng]
(and after). Bactriane was a "marriage" between
two civilization. Not a conflict limit.
In the 70's I was too young to go somewhere alone...
But around 1977/78, I've read a french book written
by Anne-France D'HAUTEVILLE who has visited
Afghanistan in 1970/75 and she loves this country,
and perhaps give me the idea to visit it in the future.
I keep this idea. War will have a end.
JMZ (France)
3BE5C880.868DF7FB@ndh.net...
> JMZ schrieb:
>
> > 3BE588FA.DC9CAB81@ndh.net...
> > > No, that's not Balkh, it's somewhere in south-western Turkmenistan,
east
> > of
> > > that would be ancient
> > > Merv... Balkh is located in northern Afghanistan!
> >
> > Sure, ruins of Balkh (Bactres in French) are at
> > 10 kilometers on the west of Mazar e Sharif.
> > But I have some difficults to point the nail
> > at the exact place...
> >
>
> Have you ever been there - perhaps back in the 70s, as a shaggy hippie
with
> flowing mane on the Magic Highway to India?
>
> Though I never had the chance to visit the country, I'm an Afghanistan
geek
> myself (see also my signature) and toyed for years with the idea of
pre-war
> Afghanistan as a raytraced 3D world... currently I'm working on the region
> between Kandahar and the Pakistani border, based on a scanned topographic
map
> at a scale of 1:300.000. Cumbersome work, more than 4 million pixels have
to
> be set manually to make the heightfield...
>
> See you in Khyberspace -
http://www.geocities.com/electricafghan/index-e.html
>
> Afghanistan Chronicle: http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/
>
> Yadgar - Cologne, Germany
>
>
>
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JMZ schrieb:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Unhappily, I've never visit Afghanistan, but
<br>I've begin study the Balkh History, from
<br>Greek Empire (and before) to Tamerlan [TimurLeng]
<br>(and after). Bactriane was a "marriage" between
<br>two civilization. Not a conflict limit.
<br> </blockquote>
Yes, I know about Bactria... the very notion that until about 60 AD a flourishing
Greco-Iranian civilization existed so far away from the motherland is thrilling...
perhaps you also heard about the ruins of Ai Khanum (around 140 BC) - wouldn't
it be tempting to render a reconstruction?
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>In the 70's I was too young to go somewhere alone...
<br>But around 1977/78, I've read a french book written
<br>by Anne-France D'HAUTEVILLE who has visited
<br>Afghanistan in 1970/75 and she loves this country,
<br>and perhaps give me the idea to visit it in the future.
<br>I keep this idea. War will have a end.
<br> </blockquote>
Yes, I'm myself an "afghoholic" since almost 20 years, desperately yearning
for a chance to simply pack my bike and set out for the Hindu Kush... but,
for reasons we all know, up to now I have to content myself with a computer-generated
virtual Afghanistan. With PoV-Ray, which I discovered in 1995, and with
the gradual advance of processors during the last years, this idea of "Khyberspace"
now slowly begins to turn reality, as I mentioned before, I'm currently
working on a 3D representation of an area in Kandahar province - when I'll
have completed the first small slice of about 200 x 500 pixels containing
a village, temporary rivers and some steep hills, I will post it here...
watch out for PoVghanistan!
<p>Does this sound interesting to anybody here around? Later on, I would
like to render some more sophisticated things, like the old city of Herat,
the famous lonely minaret of Jam, the "rainbow lakes" of Band-e Amir or
even the - now destroyed - giant rock buddhas of Bamiyan...
<p>To Éric: I never heard of Anne-France d'Hauteville's book on
Afghanistan - has it ever been translated to German or at least English
(my French is very poor) - is it a photo book like "Mémories d'Afghanistan"
of Roland and Sabrine Michaud?
<p>See you in Khyberspace - <font face="Times New Roman,Times"><a
href="http://www.geocities.com/electricafghan/index-e.html">http://www.geocities.com/electricafghan/index-e.html</a></font>
<br>Afghanistan Chronicle: <a
href="http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/">http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/</a><a
href="http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/"></a>
<p>Yadgar
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