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Unwrapping and Visualizing Cuneiform Tablets (2002)
- my_first_acct 8y agoInteresting paper from 2002. Nowadays, a popular method for imaging and viewing cuneiform tablets is Reflection Transformation Imaging (RTI) [1], developed at HP, and used among other things to image the Antikythera Mechanism [2]. You can view RTI images in your browser; here is a randomly selected cuneiform tablet in conventional [3] and RTI [4] form (click on the image and move your mouse around). The web page of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at UCLA [5] is worth a look, if you are interested in the intersection of computing and cuneiform. Among other things, they have started a project in machine-assisted translation of cuneiform [6]. [1] http://culturalheritageimaging.org/Technologies/RTI/ http://culturalheritageimaging.org/Technologies/RTI/ [2] http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2006/oct-dec/antikythera.html http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2006/oct-dec/antikythera.html [3] https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/search_results.php?SearchMode=Text&PrimaryPublication=&MuseumNumber=&Provenience=&Period=&TextSearch=&ObjectID=P236609&requestFrom=Submit https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/search_results.php?SearchMode=T... [4] https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/rti/rti_view.php?loc=P236609_o https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/rti/rti_view.php?loc=P236609_o [5] https://cdli.ucla.edu/ https://cdli.ucla.edu/ [6] https://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=news/machine-assisted-translation-cuneiform-texts https://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=news/machine-assisted-translation-c...