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Yale University Library – Reflections on Bindings

Exhibit at Yale last year using Reflectance Transformation Imaging to reveal “details unattainable by traditional methods and the naked eye,” on blind-stamped German books’ bindings from the 15th – 18th centuries. Click through the multiple tabs for info about the exhibit, … Continue reading

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Planning for this?

“In 2013, Climate Central shared some of its sea level rise mapping data with artist Nickolay Lamm so that he could develop photorealistic images of U.S. city scenes under different future scenarios. One scenario was 12 feet of sea level rise — … Continue reading

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Imaging Challenge

Level: Expert 271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book  http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/co…    

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Elena Bulat in the Boston Globe

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Happy Merry Spectral Response

nbsp;http://xkcd.com/1308/  http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/christmas_li…

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Leica acquires Sinar

Interesting… Any ideas what this might mean for us?  http://petapixel.com/2013/11/26/leica-ac…

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The future – remote photo assignment rig

Not pretty… o.0  http://petapixel.com/2013/07/25/strobepa…

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Lightzone RAW processing/photo editing software is now open source and completely free

haven’t tried it yet, some limits on camera compatibility, but it is a well reviewed (and not new) competitor in the wake of Adobe’s recent announcements…  http://petapixel.com/2013/07/09/lightzon…

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Free denoising and enlargement from UT Austin

The web app is a free service provided by the Center for Perceptual Systems at the University of Texas at Austin that applies a computational method called recursive condition means (RCM) to perform certain image processing tasks.  http://petapixel.com/2013/04/28/ut-austi…

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largest photo lab in the US

nbsp;http://petapixel.com/2013/04/24/go-behin… haven’t watched the 27 minutes yet, but this is interesting stuff to many of us, I’ll wager…

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