Digital Hammurabi

 

 

 

 

Micro-tablet T24
Johns Hopkins University  
Archeological Collection

 

unwrapping (flattening) 3D scanned cuneiform tablets uses depth-shading and small features are enhanced further explores efficient and robust 3D feature detection techniques
People: Budirijanto Purnomo, Yuan Chen, Jonathan Bilodeau, Jonathan Cohen and Subodh Kumar
Sponsor: NSF ITR grant No. 0205586
Description: This work as a part of Digital Hammurabi project appeared as the cover story of the September 2003 issue of Johns Hopkins magazine. More details: http://www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi/
Papers: iClay: Digitizing Cuneiform
 Jonathan D. Cohen, Dean Snyder, Donald Duncan, Jerrold Cooper, Subodh Kumar, Daniel Hahn, 
Yuan Chen, Budirijanto Purnomo and John Graettinger, VAST , 2004
[Paper-856KB pdf]

Digital Preservation of Ancient Cuneiform Tablets Using 3D Scanning
Subodh Kumar, Dean Snyder, Donald Duncan, Jonathan D. Cohen, Jerry Cooper 
Proceedings of IEEE Fourth International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, 2003.
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Demo: iClay:  cuneiform tablets on the internet

For more information,  Jonathan Cohen (cohen@cs.jhu.edu , Michael Kazhdan (misha@cs.jhu.eduFaculty
                                    Yuan Chen (cheny@cs.jhu.edu)
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