Miletos: Center of Science and Philosophy in ancient era

15.000 people used to watch that view during a performance 2500 years ago. The hill was an island, the plain was sea. Thales, Anaximander, Aspasia, Anaximenes, Isidorus, and many more were there.

The Road Ahead

The Long and winding road.

Pentax Digital SLR

Pentax K50, My digital SLR choice.

Istanbul Bosphorus

Istanbul, The city, where two continents meet. View from Europe to Asia.

Dec 30, 2012

Image file histogram drawer

Bmp image histogram viewer will allow you to import the bmp image file, to render the file and to draw the histogram with a scaling factor.

This version only imports bmp files, thus, you need to convert other types of files into bmp format before running the histogram. I'm hoping that, following version of this software will support several image formats. Just click the link below to download free image histogram viewer software Release 1.1..


Click following link.
Click FILE, and then DOWNLOAD on the next screen.
After downloading the zip file (Histogram.zip) UNZIP the downloaded file by double clicking it.
Then Run the Setup.exe file.
This will install Image histogram viewer on your computer.



Download Image Histogram Viewer


How to use the software?

It has a simple user guide that comes with the installation. It is located same directory and shortcut to user guide is attached on desktop.
This can not be said as a user guide. Although, the software is intuitive and easy to use, I just want to leave some comments for the users.
1) Click "File Open" button to load BMP file from your computer.
2) Set the scaling factor. This coefficient apply the scaling factor for whole image histogram. So that you can zoom in a part of the histogram or zoom out just to evaluate the picture looking at the histogram.
3) Click the "histogram" button. So, both image and its histogram will be visible.

Please note that, if you want to redraw the histogram with different scale, feel free to change the scaling factor and click "Histogram" button again.

If you liked this software, please click "g+1", "Like" or "Tweet" button. I'll keep posting the further versions.

Dec 16, 2012

Didyma, Center of Oracle for the ancient Ionians.


Didyma was an ancient Ionian sanctuary. It had a temple and oracle of Apollo. Didyma was the most significant sanctuary in the territory of Miletus. 








The oldest tablets dated back to the 6th century BC. Most of the sculptures, form the same century, were carried out to British Museum by Sir Charles Newton in 1858, of course with the permission of Ottoman authorities. German excavations made between 1905 and 1930 revealed most part of the temple.
 

The huge marble temple has amazing, 120 giant columns at the front porch. Because the giant size of the construction, it never covered by a roof.







At the back of the porch, temple priests met petitioners. They accept questions for the oracle, and to deliver oracular poems. 













Two tunnel ramps slope down from both sides of the porch to the huge square. This square held the sacred spring. A priest would drink from the spring to produce oracle.












Several impressive sculptures are around the temple, especially the head of Medusa. It is similar to the head of Medusa in the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul.






Didim, Antik İyon medeniyetinde kahinlerin ve kehanetin merkezi


Apollo Tapınağı
Didim antik bir İyon tapınağıdır.  Apollo tapınağının da bulunduğu bir kehanet merkezidir. Bu kehanet merkezi o dönemlerde Milet toprakları içerisinde bulunmaktadır. 







Didim’deki en eski yazıtlar MÖ 6. yüzyıla dayanmaktadır. Aynı yüzyıldan kalan birçok heykel 1858 yılında Sir Charles Newton tarafından Osmanlı hükümetinden izin alınarak İngiltere’ye götürülmüştür.  Didim’deki ilk kazılar 1905 ile 1930 yılları arasında yapılmış ve tapınağın büyük bir bölümü bu dönem kazıları ile ortaya çıkartılmıştır.












Büyük mermer tapınağın üzerinde 120 tane kocaman sütun bulunmaktadır. Yapının büyüklüğü nedeniyle hiçbir zaman sütunların üzeri bir çatı ile örtülmemiştir.

Sütunların bulunduğu girişin arka tarafında bir meydan bulunmaktadır. Bu meydanda tapınak rahipleri kehanet soranlar ile görüşür, onların sorularını alır ve sonrasında yanıt olarak kehanetlerini şiirsel bir şekilde verirlerdi.




Tapınağın ön tarafındaki sütunlu girişten arkadaki meydana gitmek için iki tarafta mermer tüneller mevcuttur. Bu tünellerden inerek arka meydana ulaşılır. Bu meydanda bulunan çeşmeden rahipler suyu içip, daha sonra kehanette bulunurlardı. 

Tapınağın etrafında az da olsa çeşitli heykeller bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan en bilineni Medusa başıdır. Bu baş İstanbul’daki Yerebatan sarnıcında bulunan Medusa başı ile çok benzeşmektedir.