by Art of Counting | Cross Training
Wired reports on a Scanathon that occurred last week at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. An invited group of artists, 3D enthusiasts, and Autodesk innovators pored through the museum photographing a number of prominent objects and rendering them as scale...
by Art of Counting | Cross Training
Ancient Egyptian faience, the self-glazing material composed of quartz, lime and a variety of other ingredients, may hold the key to streamlining a new technological process. As reported by Gizmag, the ability of faience to harden and glaze in a single firing holds...
by Art of Counting | Cross Training, Inspiration
A new technique has been developed that mitigates the traditional problem with using infrared on artwork–heat. This light-based method, known as Thermal Quasi-Reflectography (TQR), generates much less heat while providing more detail than previous approaches....
by Art of Counting | Cross Training
As part of their continuing effort to provide global access to their collections, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City announced today that a new collaboration with Google will help visitors access in-depth information on more than 76,0000 works. The...
by Art of Counting | Cross Training
The Atlantic reports on Phylo, an online flash video game that has helped solve a host of DNA problems and greatly expanded our genetic understanding of a variety od diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimers. As the Phylo website explains: A sequence...
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Thanks to the wonderful Ancient World Online blog for pointing out the news that the Penn Museum’s Collections Database is now available online! The database allows users to search more than 660,000 objects in multiple ways, like keyword, curatorial section,...
