Research Catalog

Title

Images and artefacts of the ancient world / edited by Alan K. Bowman & Michael Brady.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Bowman, Alan K.
• Brady, Michael, 1945-
• British Academy.
• Royal Society (Great Britain)

Description

xiv, 150 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

British Academy occasional paper ; 4

Uniform Title

British Academy occasional paper ; 4.

Subject

• Ancient world
• Antiquities > Computer simulation > Congresses
• Archaeology > Computer simulation > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology > Congresses
• Artefacts
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Interpretive programs > Congresses
• Imaging systems > Congresses

Note

• At head of title: The British Academy, The Royal Society.
• Papers based on lectures from a joint British Academy/Royal Society discussion meeting held at the Royal Society in London in Dec. 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Michael Brady & Alan K. Bowman -- Wooden stilus tablets from Roman Britain / Alan K. Bowman & Roger S.O. Tomlin -- Shadow stereo, image filtering, and constraint propagation / Michael Brady [and others] -- Digitising cuneiform tablets / Carlo Vandecasteele [and others] -- Interpretation of ancient Runic inscriptions by laser scanning / Jan O.H. Swantesson & Helmer Gustavson -- Virtual reality, relative accuracy : modelling architecture and sculpture with VRML / Michael Greenhalgh -- Automatic creation of virtual artefacts from video sequences / Andrew W. Fitzgibbon, Geoff Cross & Andrew Zisserman -- At the foot of Pompey's statue : reconceiving Rome's Theatrum Lapideum / Hugh Denard -- Modelling Sagalassos : creation of 3D archaeological virtual site / Luc Van Gool [and others] -- Three-dimensional laser imaging in an archaeological context / Andrew M. Wallace -- Movements of the mental eye in pictorial space / Jan J. Koenderink -- The potential for image analysis in numismatics / Christopher J. Howgego -- Italian terra sigillata with appliqué decoration : digitising, visualising, and web-publishing / Eleni Schindler Kaudelka & Ulrike Fastner -- Shape from profiles / Roberto Cipolla & Kwan-Yee K. Wong -- The skull as the armature of the face : reconstructing ancient faces / R.A.H. Neave & A.J.N.W. Prag -- Reconstruction of a 3D mummy portrait from Roman Egypt / Alf Linney, João Campos & Ghassan Alusi.

ISBN

0197262961 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005296182

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library