File(s) under permanent embargo
Reason: File access is limited to the Blackfoot Digital Library [BDL] and to the Museums currently caring for the items. Models will be freely viewable on the Mootookakio’ssin microsite of the BDL. Limiting access to full RTI datasets is a community-led decision safeguarding and protecting against misuse of community ‘assets’.
National Museums Scotland A1904.160 Shirt [quillwork detail under Reflectance Transformation Imaging]
dataset
posted on 2022-02-14, 13:20 authored by Louisa MinkinLouisa Minkin, Ian Dawson, Concepts Have TeethNMS Catalogue Description: Tunic: North America, Canada, Plains, Blackfoot
Reflectance Transformation Imaging dataset of quillwork detail taken on project visit to National Museums Collection Centre, Edinburgh September 2021.
Comprising 88 jpeg files and finished .ptm file.
RTI is a computational photographic method that captures a subject’s surface shape and colour and enables the interactive re-lighting of the subject from any direction. RTI also permits the mathematical enhancement of the subject’s surface shape and colour attributes. The enhancement functions of RTI reveal surface information that is not disclosed under direct empirical examination of the physical object.
RTI Viewer and Builder are freely downloadable from Cultural Heritage Imaging Website.
Funding
Concepts Have Teeth, And Teeth That Bite Through Time: digital imaging and Blackfoot material culture in UK museums.
Arts and Humanities Research Council
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