Visual Inspection of Chinese Art
| STG lead(s): |
Elli Mylonas |
Together with Ed Huff of the Multimedia Lab, STG worked with Prof. Maggie Bickford to assist her in specing and setting up a workstation for viewing and analyzing high quality digital images of Chinese art. After she acquired the workstation, she learned how to use Adobe Photoshop to compare images and parts of images, and started to develop a methodology for manipulating images and recording what she had done for research purposes. Finally, an STG student developed a series of Photoshop scripts to perform standard manipulations.
Prof. Bickford's research on Chinese art of the Song dynasty requires her to compare components of paintings that may vary greatly in size and orientation. She has to examine images in great detail and also to juxtapose components so as to compare and overlay them. Digital images are a perfect format for her research, as she can see far greater detail than even the original object can provide, in some cases, and she can also isolate features and resize or rotate them.
| Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s): |
Maggie Bickford
History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
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| STG involvement initiated: |
July 2005 |
| Status: | in progress |
| STG consulting completed: |
2006-09-00 |
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Funding support: |
STG Faculty Grant |
Record last modified: 01-Sep-2006
