Software
DStretch is a plugin to digitally enhance photographs of rock art and graffiti.
Hierax is software for enhancing the legibility of papyri.
Virtual Light Table is a digital tool for the reconstruction of fragmentary material, developed by Stephan Unter for the Crossing Boundaries project. Make sure you have Python installed and running for it to work.
IMMARKUS is a semantic image annotation tool that allows you to assemble and organize image collections and their metadata, create custom ontologies to annotate images, identify specific image regions using ontological concepts, and add relationships between elements in and across your images. You can use various commercial and open AI models, and add your own, to select image parts or transcribe and translate text in various languages. It also includes a powerful knowledge graph to visualize and query images, annotations, relationships, and metadata.
Methods
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is a technique of imaging and interactively displaying objects under varying lighting conditions to reveal surface phenomena.
Papers
- Serotta, A., Reading Tool Marks on Egyptian Stone Sculpture, Rivista del Museo Egizio 7 (2023).
- Piquette, K., Documenting Early Egyptian Imagery: Analysing past technologies and materialities with the aid of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), in: Prehistories of writing: Iconography, graphic practices and the forming process of writing in Predynastic Egypt (2016), 87-112.
- Piquette, K., Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and Ancient Egyptian Material Culture, Damqatum 7 (2011), 16-20.