Integrating Spectral and Reflection Transformation Imaging Technologies
2013 – 2014, Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities.
This project integrated two proven technologies for imaging cultural artifacts:
• Spectral imaging, which collects detailed color data in order to recover information which is indistinguishable to the naked eye, such as unreadable text on a manuscript or stages of revision in a painting.
• Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), which captures the detailed surface texture of artifacts. RTI images can be viewed interactively and enhanced, allowing scholars and conservators to reconstruct the methods by which an artifact was produced and to analyze its current physical condition.
Todd Hanneken, St. Mary’s University – project director, data management, ImageJ processing
Mike Phelps, Early Manuscripts Electronic Library – sponsoring institution and spectral imaging team lead
Ken Boydson, MegaVision – spectral imaging camera and PhotoShoot software operator
Bill Christens-Barry, Equipose Imaging – Illumination, design and construction of Eureka Lights and Magic Flashlight prototype
Roger Easton, Jr., Rochester Institute of Technology – image processing in ENVI (PCA and ICA)
Bruce Zuckerman, University of Southern California (USC), West Semitic Research (WSR) and InscriptiFact projects – imaging site host and RTI team lead
Ken Zuckerman, WSR – RTI image capture
Marilyn Lundberg, WSR – RTI processing, cataloguing
Leta Hunt, USC, InscriptiFact – InscriptiFact images dissemination, project administration
Matt Klassen, St. Mary’s University – student researcher, project scribe, Magic Flashlight operator
https://palimpsest.stmarytx.edu/integrating/
Funded by the United States National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities
