Scanning provisionally planned for April 17-21, 2012

The visionary cross team has scheduled April 17-21, 2012 for scanning the Ruthwell Cross (pending final approval from Historic Scotland).

The scanning will involve capturing 3D laser scans of the cross at extremely high resolution. We will also be taking high quality, high resolution digital photographs.

The scans and the photography will allow scholars and the public to conduct research on the cross that has ever been possible before. The scans will produce micro-millimetre accurate measurements of the cross and its panels. The photography will allow extremely detailed examination of details of the cross.

The scanning will be conducted by a team from the Visual Computing Laboratory at the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” (an institute of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) of Italy). Among the many projects carried out by this team was the pioneering Digital Michaelangelo Project.

Photographic work will be carried out by James Graham of the University of Lethbridge Department of New Media.

University of Lethbridge M.A. student, Heather Hobma, will be conducting site-specific research for her M.A. thesis on the on-site digital curation of cultural heritage objects.

The Visionary Cross project is led by Catherine Karkov (Leeds), Daniel Paul O’Donnell (Lethbridge), and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (Torino and Pisa). Wendy Osborn (Computer Science, University of Lethbridge) works on database and digital library research within the project. The Visionary Cross Project is funded by the Social Sciences and Research Council (Canada) and the University of Lethbridge CREDO programme.

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