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Reflectance Transformation Imaging<br />

� Uses conventional raking light photography<br />

� <strong>Digital</strong> images taken of inscribed surface with a camera in a<br />

fixed position and illumination applied from different angles<br />

� Multiple captures are combined in order to:<br />

� produce interactive, relit records of the surface for<br />

examination of artefacts<br />

� Improved visualisation<br />

� Legibility<br />

� Materiality<br />

� First algorithm for photo amalgamation developed by Tom<br />

Malzbender of HP labs in 2001, referred to as Polynomial<br />

Texture Mapping (PTM)<br />

Developing A Reflectance Transformation Imaging System for Inscription<br />

Documentation. <strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Classicist</strong> 03-06-2011, ICS

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