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 photogrammetric datasets is a community-led decision safeguarding and protecting against misuse of community ‘assets’.
National Museums Scotland A.1902.280_Lasso_RTI
NMS Catalogue Description: Length of 4-strand lasso of plaited leather: North America, Plains, Blackfoot
Reflectance Transformation Imaging dataset of lasso taken on project visit to National Museums Collection Centre, Edinburgh September 2021. 148 jpeg files and the 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 the 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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