The Thread Count Automation Project (TCAP), initiated in 2007, is dedicated to creating and disseminating computer-assisted, signal-processing-based tools that support conservators and art historians in their examination and...
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The Watermark Identification in Rembrandt’s Etchings project (WIRE), a multidisciplinary collaboration among museums, university faculty, and students, aims to promote digital access to Rembrandt paper scholarship. Its chief...
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The goal of the Watermark Imaging Box (WImBo) Project is to develop a low-cost, readily portable system for imaging artworks on paper; as a proof of concept, WimBo...
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Handmade laid paper has the important quality that every sheet of paper formed on the same papermaking mold retains a nearly identical imprint of the mold’s wire structure....
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The Digital Scrolling Paintings Project was initiated in the Department of Art History to create a resource for teaching about Chinese paintings at the University of Chicago. Handscroll...
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Professor C. Richard Johnson discussed the techniques he innovated using X-rays and algorithms to analyze works of art in his Nov. 9 talk at the A.D. White House,...
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Closer to Van Eyck was an interdisciplinary research project to assess the structural condition of the Ghent Altarpiece. The site contains high-resolution images and digital macrophotography of the...
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Whereas pictures can be satisfactorily represented in two dimensions on a computer screen, space — especially Gothic space — demands a different approach, one which embraces not only...
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The site functions both as a digital archive and as an immersive virtual environment in which users can explore the Peacock Room, learn about the objects it has...
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The system we have designed, which is now in beta version, is called ARIES for ARt Image Exploration Space. ARIES is an interactive image manipulation system that allows...
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