Category Archives: 3D

They came (to the Library) from outer space

3D models of meteorites, created using photogrammetry. Meteorites by Harvard Library on Sketchfab

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Digitization: Current Practices to Future Prophecies

“Digitization: Current Practices to Future Prophecies” Chris Edwards, the Getty’s Imaging and Digital Media Architect, presentation at Documenta conference in November 2018. https://player.admiralcloud.com/?v=dfd621a1-bbe9-4196-8166-802d117d7dc2 full conference info: https://www.documenta-archiv.de/en/aktuell/termine/1362/conference-archiving-the-unarchivable-das-unarchivierbare-archivieren

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Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects

Corning Museum of Glass This is the first of a series of blog posts addressing photographic lighting techniques for transparent glasses.

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Yale exhibit: “Reflections on Bindings”

“Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) offers exciting new possibilities for safely capturing a book’s surface decorations, revealing details that cannot be seen using traditional methods or the naked eye.”

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Squeeze Imaging Project

The Smithsonian Institution employed RTI to image a collection of squeezes.

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Welcome to the MiniDome!

The Folger Shakespeare Library recently (August 2013) hosted a two-day conference exploring “new tools for the study of English and Continental bookbinding and sharing new scholarship in the materiality of the book.”  At the conference a workshop on a new … Continue reading

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