For all of you who thought you had problems with
"stitching" digital images together, you really
should read about/or watch this...
Diane
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:14:54 -0700
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From: Jackie Spafford <[email protected]>
Subject: Watch PBS TV listings for program on Unicorn Tapestries (fwd)
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Remember that fascinating New Yorker story about the Unicorn Tapestries?
There's a segment about the Chudnovsky Brothers on Nova tomorrow night on
PBS.
Jackie
An exciting TV segment about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Unicorn
Tapestries will be aired nationally on PBS next week.
The show will air in the New York City area on WNET Channel 13 on
Tuesday, July 26, at 8:00 p.m. Look for your local PBS listings for
times outside of New York.
The new series NOVA scienceNOW looks at the complexóand unusualóprocess
that was used to create digital photographs of the tapestries.
A preview of the segment is available on the NOVA website.
Story Information:
* Inspired by an April 11 New Yorker magazine article, the NOVA
producers recreated the ambitious photography project that began when
the 500-year-old Unicorn Tapestries were taken off display at The
Cloisters for conservation.
* The Met's in-house Photograph Studio mounted a high-resolution
digital camera on elaborate scaffolding to document the enormous
tapestries from the front and back, where the original vibrant colors
were revealed when the tattered backings were removed.
* Only small sections at a time could be photographed, and over 2 weeks
of shooting produced 200 CDs of detailed digital photographs.
* The Met looked for help in consolidating these photos and found two
brilliant mathematicians, brothers Gregory and David Chudnovsky.
* In their spare time, using a homemade supercomputer with parts from
Home Depot, the brothers took on the challengeó290 million pixels and
7.7 quadrillion calculations later, they reached their goal.
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Diane M. Zorich
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