In Land of Marble, photographer Alessandro Gandolfi explores the past and future of Italy's striking marble quarries ...
[Engineezy] adds some color to the theme, building a machine to create 16×16 marble images automatically. (Video embedded below.) The core problem was devising ways to sort, lift, place ...
Tour operators use non-invasive methods to preserve the fragile marble formations for future ... and a camera to capture the vibrant colors of the caves and surrounding landscapes.
The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry in the image below, is widely regarded as the purest and most valuable in the world. Before ...