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Description
The goal of this work is to create readable images of texts (damaged books, rolled papyrus),
without opening theIn, using minimally invasive scanning, virtual unwrapping, and visualization.
Achieving this goal will reveal texts thought lost, reviving perhaps sole extant copies of manuscripts
that cannot be safely analyzed by any other known means. This challenge requires research advances
in collaborative systems that support non-invasive volumetric scanning, texture and shape modeling
and simulation, visualization for editorial analysis and enhancement, and underlying computational
mechanisms that support massive data storage and processing. The key research challenges:
• Volumetric Data Acquisition: identifying information within opaque objects via nondestructive
volumetric scanning raises new research challenges related to x-ray scanning techniques,
post-scan processing algorithms, and scanner portability
• Modeling, Simulation and Visualization: extracting a high-quality representation of what
may be present in a volumetric scan of an opaque object requires new advances in shape and
texture lllanipulation, sinlulation to unwrap and unroll, and visualization with unique interfaces
to enable collaborative editorial analysis and exploration
• Distributed Programmable Data Storage: the volume of data and thc distributed, collaborative
nature of the analysis requires support from the underlying computational storage
and processing architecture
We will develop new approaches to these challenges and will systematically build a system using
simulation, real samples, and controlled experiments. We will then work with real objects from
collections offered by our partners at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, the British
~luseum, and the Natural History Museum in London (see attached letters of partnership support
from leaders at each of these institutions). We intend to produce images of complete texts that
cannot be obtained by any other means.
Education: \Ve will establish a three-credit course to be offered for a mixture of undergraduates and
rising high school seniors in Jessamine County, Kentucky, our partner secondary school. The course
will introduce students to fundamental technologies and the significance of the cultural artifacts
themselves through a balance of technology and scholarship in the humanities.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/06 → 8/31/11 |
Funding
- National Science Foundation: $1,346,421.00
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Projects
- 3 Finished
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EDUCE: REU Supplement: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration
Seales, W. (PI)
9/1/09 → 8/31/11
Project: Research project
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EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration-Supplement
Seales, W. (PI)
9/1/09 → 8/31/11
Project: Research project
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EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration: Foreign Travel Supplement
Seales, W. (PI), Griffioen, J. (CoI) & Scaife, A. (CoI)
9/1/06 → 9/25/09
Project: Research project