Category: Rita Lucarelli

Images of Eternity in 3D: The Visualization of Ancient Egyptian Coffins Through Photogrammetry

3D Coffin Model from Images of Eternity. Courtesty of Hearst Museum.

Rita Lucarelli creates 3D images of ancient Egyptian coffins. Using Agisoft Photoscan, the Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and her team transform 2D photographs into 3D models before annotating the virtual figures with transliterations, translations, and other relevant data. Since Egyptian hieroglyphics adorning funerary materials were copied and read from different directions, 3D interaction with digitized images provides better access to the texts of such objects than traditional 2D representations.

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