This month sees the publication of an article written by myself and Dr Graeme Earl from the University of Southampton’s Archaeological Computing Research Group entitled “Polynomial Texture Mapping for Archaeologists” in the March/April edition of British Archaeology magazine. It is available to download at the bottom of this post. Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) is a [...]
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Building Rome in a Day
The billions of photos taken in cities across the world and uploaded to places like Flickr, Photobucket et al might suddenly have a very interesting use. The University of Washington are experimenting with the creation of 3D “point clouds” similar to those created by terrestrial laser scanners, from downloaded images. By sourcing images and applying [...]
Archaeopix: a Creative Commons archaeology photo search tool
Alun Salt and I have been working on a new website to help simplify the process of finding archaeology and heritage-related photos that have a Creative Commons license attached to them. Without further ado, introducing… Archaeopix! The homepage features a photo of the day, which we hope to update daily. Clicking “Search” on the navigation [...]
Photographs of Brunel's Structures
A recent comment alerted me to the photographs by David White of Brunel’s engineering feats. He had a camera built to a specification similar to that used by Robert Howlett, Brunel’s photographer who took the famous photo of Brunel standing in front of a backdrop of giant chains from the Great Eastern. He used a [...]
Historic Photos and Folksonomies
I’ve long been an advocate of folksonomies. It allows the wider community to add knowledge to resources through tags and comments, ultimately making things easier to find. A number of institutions have allowed free tagging of certain resources for a while now, such as the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, the collective STEVE museum, and of [...]
Geotagging Photos: Zooomr
Silbury Hill, Wiltshire Hosted on Zooomr There’s one thing that Flickr doesn’t support natively, and that is the ability to ‘geotag’ photos. In a nutshell, geotagging is just associating spatial data (i.e. a set of coordinates) showing where you took a particular photo (or where the subject is located). You could then see where it [...]
Archaeology group on Flickr
Despite the wealth of photographs on Flickr that are tagged with archaeology, there didn’t appear to be a group for it, so, without further ado, I’d like to present the new Archaeology group on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/archaeology/ At the moment, it’s invite only, to try and get some high quality photos on it as a base, [...]
Winter Solstice at Stonehenge
I visited Stonehenge this morning to watch the winter solstice sunrise. English Heritage opened the monument for a couple of hours, and a few hundred people came up to celebrate, wander, and absorb the atmosphere. It was a bit foggy, and it wasn’t until about 20 minutes or so after sunrise that we first got [...]
