while in rome, the survey team (consisting of phillip moses, james kalivas and me) took measurements of the actual colosseum. we used a zeiss rec-elta 500 to survey more than 500 discreet data points on the structure. once the measurements were taken they were fed into a computer database system and correlated to a hand drawn layout of the building. this enabled us to know the exact dimensions of the actual structure we would later duplicate in scale.

i also took hundreds of photos of the colosseum for reference of scale, texture, and structural details for later use by the model team.

structural reference	texture reference
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