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Zusatztext ...a bold, original and well-illustrated collection of fifteen papers addressing state-of-the-art computer-based imaging of ancient visual culture, and it opens up a fruitful collaborative dialogue between the Humanities and the Sciences ... this volume will surely - as the Editors hoped - 'set a standard and a guideline for interdisciplinary research' Klappentext In this genuinely productive interdisciplinary dialogue, engineering scientists, archaeologists and historians discuss how recent exciting developments in imaging, image analysis, and image display/diffusion can be applied to three-dimensional objects of material culture from the classical world, ranging from inscribed writing tablets to buildings and urban sites. The fifteen papers explore the ways in which the scientific contributors and the historians are thinking about subjectivity of interpretation, visual cognition, and the need to improve the presentation of evidence so as to feed directly back into their own scientific thinking and to encourage genuine innovation in developing methods of image-enhancement and the interpretation of objects. Zusammenfassung Scientific and technical leaps forward in recent years have introduced a new dimension into the study of objects from the ancient world. In 2000 a discussion meeting was held at the Royal Society in London with the aim of debating the potential of this 'image enhancement' among archaeologists, historians and scientists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Wooden stilus tablets from Roman Britain Shadow Stereo, image filtering, and constraint propagation Digitising cuneiform tablets Interpretation of ancient runic inscriptions by laser scanning Virtual reality, relative accuracy: modelling architecture and sculpture with VRML Automatic creation of virtual artefacts from video sequences At the foot of Pompey's statue: reconceiving Rome's theatrum lapideum Modelling Sagalassos: creation of a 3D archaeological virtual site Three-simensional laser imaging and processing in an archaeological context; Movements of the mental eye in pictorial space The potential for image analysis in numismatics Italian terra sigillata with appliqué decoration: digitising, visualising and web-publishing Shape from profiles The skull as the armature of the face: reconstructing ancient faces Reconstruction of a 3D mummy portrait from Roman Egypt ...
