Egypt
- Ancient Egyptian Cotton Unveils Secrets Of Domesticated Crop Evolution
Science Daily Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that punctuated evolution has occurred in a major crop group within the relatively short history of plant domestication....
- Conference: Electronic Visualisation And The Arts
EVA 2010 ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS EVA London 2010 Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th July 2010 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 15th January 2010 http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/ *Visualising* ideas and concepts in culture, heritage and the...
- Cairo Tower Embraces Efficient Lighting
Engineering News One of Egypt’s most famous landmarks, the Cairo Tower, has been given a new night-time look, owing to an energy-efficient lighting scheme created by colour-changing light emitting diode (LED) technology. The LED lighting technology,...
- Saturday Trivia
The world has been sadly short of archaeological trivia recently, but here's are some bits of forthcoming "virtual" wizadry from the world of technology, that might interest and/or amuse: Virtual archaeology on the move http://tinyurl.com/jt4mn (istresults.cordis.europa.eu)...
- Simulating The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/rj2fj (thisisbradford.co.uk) New technology is being developed which will enabled archaeologists to create realistic simulations of sites and monuments, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun: "Researchers from the University of Bradford are...
Egypt
Walk like an Egyptian - or a Roman
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070515102529.htm
Okay, so the word "Egypt" is mentioned nowhere in this article accept in its title. But regular readers will know that I am an absolute push-over for blending technology and archaeology, and the applications are just as good for Egyptology as any other archaeological field, so I've slipped this one in today:
"Computer scientists and cultural heritage researchers are assessing whether today's increasingly sophisticated 3-d computer technology can be combined with the most recent historical evidence to produce significantly improved visual reconstructions of churches, palaces and other ancient sites.
This could help historians, students and museum visitors gain a much better feel of how such sites were perceived by the people who used them in the past and what it was actually like to be there. The project is being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The work is being carried out by researchers from Warwick Manufacturing Group and the new Warwick Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick.
In particular, the effects of smoke, dust, fog and interior lighting conditions (all of which would have impacted on the way that buildings were experienced by contemporaries) can now be modelled very accurately, for the first time. New developments in display technology also mean it is possible to produce images that are many times brighter, more vivid in colour, incorporate better contrast between light and dark -- and are therefore much more realistic -- than those previously achievable."
This could help historians, students and museum visitors gain a much better feel of how such sites were perceived by the people who used them in the past and what it was actually like to be there. The project is being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The work is being carried out by researchers from Warwick Manufacturing Group and the new Warwick Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick.
In particular, the effects of smoke, dust, fog and interior lighting conditions (all of which would have impacted on the way that buildings were experienced by contemporaries) can now be modelled very accurately, for the first time. New developments in display technology also mean it is possible to produce images that are many times brighter, more vivid in colour, incorporate better contrast between light and dark -- and are therefore much more realistic -- than those previously achievable."
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- Ancient Egyptian Cotton Unveils Secrets Of Domesticated Crop Evolution
Science Daily Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that punctuated evolution has occurred in a major crop group within the relatively short history of plant domestication....
- Conference: Electronic Visualisation And The Arts
EVA 2010 ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS EVA London 2010 Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th July 2010 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 15th January 2010 http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/ *Visualising* ideas and concepts in culture, heritage and the...
- Cairo Tower Embraces Efficient Lighting
Engineering News One of Egypt’s most famous landmarks, the Cairo Tower, has been given a new night-time look, owing to an energy-efficient lighting scheme created by colour-changing light emitting diode (LED) technology. The LED lighting technology,...
- Saturday Trivia
The world has been sadly short of archaeological trivia recently, but here's are some bits of forthcoming "virtual" wizadry from the world of technology, that might interest and/or amuse: Virtual archaeology on the move http://tinyurl.com/jt4mn (istresults.cordis.europa.eu)...
- Simulating The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/rj2fj (thisisbradford.co.uk) New technology is being developed which will enabled archaeologists to create realistic simulations of sites and monuments, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun: "Researchers from the University of Bradford are...