Digital Sculpture Project: News
October 1, 2011
New version of website launched on October 1, 2011.
April 14, 2011
Project Director
October 22, 2010
Two books on stone carving techniques by Peter Rockwell et al. have been posted on The Digital Sculpture website: Peter Rockwell, The Art of Stoneworking: A Reference Guide (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1993); and Peter Rockwell, Stanley Rosenfeld and Heather Hanley with photographs by Stanley Rosenfeld, The Compleat Marble Sleuth (Rockrose Publishing, Sunny Isles Beach, FL: 2004).
June 15, 2010
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a Collaborative Research Grant (RZ-51221) to the Lab in support of its project, "Creating a 'Total Environment' for the 'Caligula' in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)."
April 15, 2010
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant (HD-51022-10) to the Lab in support of its project, "New Digital Tools for Restoring Polychromy to 3D Digital Models of Sculpture."
Dec. 28, 2009
A new article by Andrea Felice, “Fidelity and Technique of Plaster Casts,” has been posted on the Digital Sculpture Project website.
Dec. 16, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education posted an article, "Give a Humanist a Supercomputer...", covering a recent talk by Lab scholarly collaborator David Koller on using high-performance computing to process 3D scan data for digital models of sculpture and other cultural heritage objects. The talk was presented at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2009 Membership Meeting. [Link to article].
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