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Conference: College Art Association (CAA)
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, CA
Dates: February 22-25 2012
LITHICS VISUALIZATION PROJECTSession Title:
Lithics Visualization for Analysis of Patterns and Aesthetic Presentation
Co-author/speaker: Georgia Gene Berryhill, Ph.D. - University of Maryland - UMUC
Co-authors: Thomas E. Levy, Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego
Lev Manovich, Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego
Session:
Information Visualization as a Research Method in Art History
Session Chairs:
• Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute
• Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego
Main Points:
• Scholars are interested in Information Visualization for their research.
• Large-scale digital collections provide online access to materials.
• Information Visualization enables exploration of complex relationships and
patterns of visual artifacts.
FIG. 1
FIG. 2
Type of Lithic: Pressure flaked Neolithic Arrowheads
(ventral and dorsal views)
LIGHTROOM - To date, close to 1000 arrowheads in the catalogs.
FIG. 3
Initial Objectives:
• Photograph a visual
collection/database of the
lithics which will provide
a
large sampling suitable for
visual analytics.
• Explore aesthetic
presentation potentials.
• Utilize new software
and computer interfaces.
FIG. 4
FIG. 5
Initial Groupings
FIG. 6
Colored background ideas
FIG. 7
Mock up: First Lithics Array Experiment
FIG. 8HIPerSpace
FIG. 9
FIG. 10Gene Berryhill and Tom Levy at HIPerSpace
CM
Actual Size-about 2.5 CM
FIG. 11
BLOW UP - Over 5 feet in length FIG. 12
FIG. 13Blown up to over 11 feet--shot with a Canon 50D and Sigma Macro lens
FIG. 14
Traditional lighting
with drop shadowsLight box shots
for blue screen
FIG. 15
L-R: Gene Berryhill, Jeremy Douglass and Lev Manovich at the CRCA Lab
Source of Lithics:
Faynan District - Jordan
Wadi Faynan
Dig Site: Tel Tifdan
FIG. 16
View of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Jordanian village of Tel Tifdan dating to ca. 7500 - 6500 BCE. Looking west, the Wilderness of Zin in Israel's Negev desert.
Amuq
Jericho
FIG. 17
Byblos
bodytang
3 Types of Arrowheads
FIG. 18
The Siq at Petra, Jordan
FIG. 19
WF001_19_10265_amuq_1&2
site/area_locus_basket_arrowhead type_dorsal_1 or ventral 2 views
FIG. 20
Excel spreadsheet classifications example
FIG. 21
ImageJ arrow measure 1 for size and shape analysis
FIG. 22
ImageJ arrow measure 2 for size and shape analysis
FIG. 23
ImageJ arrow measure 3 for size and shape analysis
FIG. 24
ImageJ arrow measure 4 for size and shape analysis
FIG. 25
ImageJ Measure Command Options
FIG. 26
ImagePlot
[fig. 21]
FIG. 27
Once the measurement of each arrow in every photo is complete, we use ImagePlot software developed by Software Studies to create high resolution visualizations where the arrows are positioned according to various combinations of these measurements, as well as the categories normally used by archeologists to describe these artifacts. Lev Manovich
Wadi Faynan Lithic Aesthetic Array(based on a field map)
FIG. 28
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