c. - Digital Classicist
c. - Digital Classicist
c. - Digital Classicist
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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