Interesting website and reading. Thanks much for the info.
ad --- Freedom Lover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This came from my museum list. Thought some of you > might find this new scanner/method interesting. > Andrea > > > Museums of the Future > > Digital archiving has been in considerable demand in > Japan for use with cultural assets, which tend to be > both difficult to access and extremely fragile. > > A team led by Professor Ide Ari of Kyoto University > has developed an ultrahigh-resolution large flat-bed > scanner that can record objects measuring up to 200 > cm in length and 90 cm in width, and a pigment > materials estimation system capable of discerning > about 1,000 hues of pigments used in Japanese > paintings. The research and development work is an > outcome of the R&D innovative research under taken > by the Japan Science and Techno logy Agency (JST). > The scanner technology is based on the technology > developed by Dai Nippon Screen Manufacturing > Company, a high-tech company in the field based in > Kyoto. > > The scanner that has been developed enables graphic > images to be made without damaging the objects being > recorded and with superlative levels of accuracy. > Conventional camera photography commonly used for > digital archiving could, for example, distort images > of a square plane to appear like a curved barrel, > because of lens aberration. Accurate color > reproduction is also difficult when photographing > large cultural assets, because lighting conditions > change, however imperceptibly, each time a > photograph is taken. On the other hand, the > non-contact scanner that Professor Ide has developed > is ideal for digitizing graphic images and is > capable of making images just by passing the scanner > over the object under the stable light conditions > delivered by proximal light from a light-emitting > diode. > > The graphic materials estimation system, meanwhile, > is a system that digitizes pixel data obtained from > scanning Japanese cultural assets and estimates the > pigments used in them. The system is capable of > identifying pigment name, type, origin, raw stone, > color sample images, compositional elements, > spectral reflectivity, and elements in the pigment, > at the same time providing scientific and artistic > information such as the age, school of the artist, > and deterioration process. Work has begun on the > digital archiving of 954 sliding screen paintings > that have been designated as important cultural > assets at Nijo-jo castle, a World Heritage site. And > the development of educational content for the > extremely high resolution display system (NHK 4000 > super high vision system) is underway at Kyushu > National Museum. > > According to Professor Ide, "The development of > content is part of the efforts to search for museum > exhibition methods in the future," and experiments > are underway to "enable viewing of details of > paintings at a microscopic level, something that is > not currently possible at museums." > ------------------- > Source: > http://www.japanjournal.jp/tjje/show_art.php?INDyear=07&INDmon=04&artid=d1b5c679c7ac3955305aad035ade3828&page=3 > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at > www.filmfan.com > > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo > Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: > SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible > for its content. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
