Paleo Imaging Workshop

This wiki supports the paleo imaging workshop to be held at the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, to include the High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility, and various research units at the Pickle Research Center, 28 April-2 May, 2014

Agenda

• Agenda: Day 1
• CT Scanning short course agenda: Day 2, repeated Day 3
• Demonstration stations: Day 2, repeated Day 3
• Final wrap up at Aloft Hotel, 1 May, 6:00-6:30 p.m.

Logistics

• Map of Pickle center area

Remote Participation

Remote participation will be provided via Adobe Connect: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/paleo/

Resource Links

• Suggested links from Roger Burkhalter, Sam Noble Museum
  • A place to see various macro lenses
  • A place to purchase hard-to-find macro equipment
  • A place that can repair and refurbish old lenses
• Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) resources and information from Chelsea Graham, Yale Digital Commons
  • Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI), company that fabricates the RTI dome
  • Training, consulting and support from CHI
  • RTI acquisition techniques. RTI acquisition is possible under domes with fixed lights as well as through a string and light method where the light location is measured and moved for each image.
  • Downloads of RTIBuilder–-a software to create the visualization files (.rti and .ptm) from image sets and RTIViewer–-a software for visualization
  • Another viewer available for .ptm file visualization from HP
  • Read about polynomial texture maps (PTM) from HP
  • Dissemination via web visualization