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 A.UC.316 (Shirt) Quillwork detail under Reflectance Transformation Imaging
dataset
posted on 2022-02-14, 13:40 authored by Louisa MinkinLouisa Minkin, Ian Dawson, Concepts Have TeethA.UC.316
NMS Catalogue Description: Tunic of deer leather ornamented with quillwork and tags of black hair and leather: North America, Plains, possibly Assiniboin or Yanktonai
Reflectance Transformation Imaging dataset of quillwork detail taken on project visit to National Museums Collection Centre, Edinburgh September 2021.
Comprising 142 jpeg files, assembly files and finished .ptm file.
RTI is a computational photographic method that captures a subject’s surface shape and color 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 color 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.
NMS Catalogue Description: Tunic of deer leather ornamented with quillwork and tags of black hair and leather: North America, Plains, possibly Assiniboin or Yanktonai
Reflectance Transformation Imaging dataset of quillwork detail taken on project visit to National Museums Collection Centre, Edinburgh September 2021.
Comprising 142 jpeg files, assembly files and finished .ptm file.
RTI is a computational photographic method that captures a subject’s surface shape and color 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 color 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.
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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