Venetus A, the century old manuscript of Iliad, one of ancient Greek epic poems of Homer, the blind Ionian poet, is all to set available in 3-D data due to the extensive research work of scientists from University of Kentucky.

The researchers have used a laser scanner equipped with a robot arm to make a high-resolution, 3-D copy of the entire 645-page book and a searchable transcription of the ancient manuscript, which has been lying in precarious condition in the ancient Public Library of St. Mark, Venice since 1901.

The robot arm helped the researchers to create a precise map of each of pages that the scanner scans. Then the data is transferred into a CAD program to create an image of the manuscript page with all its ruffle and flicker. They have used a 1-terabyte redundant-disk storage system on a high-speed network to store the data.

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