15 Years of Art Imaging

From slides to TeraBytes

VASARI

Monitoring changes

National Gallery National Gallery Imaging CampaignImaging Campaign

2 years

5 staff

2500 paintings

1TByte

Courtesy

John Cupitt

National Gallery

Viseum viewer

X-Ray mosaicing

"digital" x-ray equipment still not in general museum use due cost

Legacy of x-ray film

Prosumer cameras

IconView

Mainimage area

Zoomcontrols

Description

links to views

off-site links

National Gallery &

HP Polynomial

Texture Mapping

Courtesy of Joseph Padfield - National Gallery

Low-end imaging

• for a different reason!

3D scanning

• Why?

3D Laser: Cherbourg

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Image-based 3D reconstruction: VAM

33 objects: statuettes, ceramic French vases

Michelangelo project

• by Stanford

• used Cyberware

Arius 3D

• laser based – developed by CNR Canada

• RGB lasers give colour

C2RMF ACOHIR scanner