TY - CHAP
T1 - Digital enhancement of deteriorated and superimposed pigment art: methods and case studies
AU - Brady, Liam
AU - Gunn, Robert
PY - 2012/7/23
Y1 - 2012/7/23
N2 - A key challenge in rock art research has involved developing methods to assist in recovering and documenting deteriorated and superimposed pigment art. The " digital revolution " has played a crucial role in this endeavor as it has brought many new and innovative ways of seeing and recording rock art. In this chapter, we examine the methods and results generated from using computer enhancement techniques. Given the potential of these techniques to shed light on aspects of assemblages that may have been missed using conventional recording strategies, we argue that these techniques must now form an integral component of recording methodologies.
AB - A key challenge in rock art research has involved developing methods to assist in recovering and documenting deteriorated and superimposed pigment art. The " digital revolution " has played a crucial role in this endeavor as it has brought many new and innovative ways of seeing and recording rock art. In this chapter, we examine the methods and results generated from using computer enhancement techniques. Given the potential of these techniques to shed light on aspects of assemblages that may have been missed using conventional recording strategies, we argue that these techniques must now form an integral component of recording methodologies.
KW - "digital revolution" using computer enhancement techniques
KW - Computer-aided image enhancement, recording/preserving of rock art
KW - Context of pigment art, digital in recovery of deteriorated, damaged imagery
KW - Decorrelation Stretch, or DStretch©, artificial highlighting of colors
KW - Digital enhancement of deteriorated and superimposed pigment art
KW - Digital technology, in color correction or faded imagery reconstitution
KW - Enhancing pigment art using Photoshop©, identifying faded/deteriorated colors
KW - Parietal art and methods in recording, date sites and pictures
KW - Photographic enhancement of pigment art, recovering deteriorated motifs
KW - Rock art in the digital age, Torres Strait, patterns of inter-regional interaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887190211&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/9781118253892.ch35
DO - 10.1002/9781118253892.ch35
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781444334241
T3 - Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
SP - 625
EP - 643
BT - A Companion to Rock Art
A2 - McDonald, Jo
A2 - Veth, Peter
PB - Blackwell Publishing
CY - Oxford
ER -