Collaborative Planning and Research Exploration: Digital Restoration of Asian Antiquities

协作规划和研究探索：亚洲文物的数字修复

• 批准号: 1132896
• 负责人: William Seales
• 金额: $ 9.43万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1132896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Planning; Research; Exploration; Digital

This award provides funding to support two planning visits to Taiwan and preliminary data acquisition and testing of new visualization methods with the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei. The purpose of the project is to develop a collaborative research project on the application of advanced visualization and digitization techniques to the examination and representation of otherwise inaccessible antiquities and documents. The PI has been developing various methods for non-invasive analysis, including micro-CT, multi-spectral imaging, and registered shape acquisition and shape restoration, that allow inspection and display of historical materials that are otherwise too fragile to handle. This planning project will demonstrate the utility of the new techniques for a broad range of research applications.This planning visit gives access to the large repository of unique and priceless objects and documents in the Museum. The project offers benefits in two respects: First, the technology that is being developed and demonstrated opens up opportunities for better analysis in a variety of fields from archeology and anthropology to physics and materials science. At the same time the new information that is revealed from the exceptional collections at NPM provides a new window for exploration and study of the history of science and technology in ancient China. This capability provides an interesting demonstration of the benefits of science to the public, both in Taiwan and globally. The information revealed by the inspection of rare items will be available for both specialists and the public at large.

该奖项提供资金支持两次对台湾的规划访问以及与台北国立故宫博物院（NPM）一起进行新可视化方法的初步数据采集和测试。该项目的目的是开发一个合作研究项目，应用先进的可视化和数字化技术来检查和呈现原本无法访问的古物和文件。 PI 一直在开发各种非侵入性分析方法，包括显微 CT、多光谱成像以及注册形状采集和形状恢复，这些方法可以检查和显示历史材料，否则这些材料太脆弱而无法处理。该规划项目将展示新技术在广泛的研究应用中的实用性。通过这次规划访问，可以访问博物馆内独特且无价的物品和文件的大型存储库。该项目有两个方面的好处：首先，正在开发和演示的技术为从考古学、人类学到物理学和材料科学等各个领域进行更好的分析提供了机会。同时，国家博物馆的珍贵藏品所揭示的新信息，为探索和研究中国古代科技史提供了一个新的窗口。这种能力有趣地展示了科学对台湾和全球公众的好处。通过检查稀有物品所揭示的信息将可供专家和广大公众使用。