This tutorial is meant as preparation for a class on Digital Epigraphy I am giving this week and the next. It will explain the basics of vector drawing in Adobe Illustrator. Other tutorials will follow on vector drawing in Inkscape (free! open source!), digital penciling and inking in Photoshop and photogrammetry. Please note that I…
Category: Digital methods
Archaeogaming and Egyptology
Good news: researching video games in the context of archaeology is a thing now! It’s called ‘archaeogaming’ and covers everything from the digging up of actual video games (think of the Atari video game burial) to the digitally ‘excavating’ of code inside an old computer game, the use of archaeological methods to approach video games,…
Digital epigraphy
Digital methods in Egyptology pt. 1 For a while I’ve been wanting to write about the various digital methods that have been developed in the last few years to make our Egyptological lives easier, and more importantly, more exciting. As 3D modeling and scanning used to be costly enterprises, cheap alternatives have cropped up in…
Everyone can 3D
Note: This article was updated on 20/10/2018 to reflect changes in software used. On my quest to introduce 3D applications into the world of Egyptology, I stumbled upon this video, which shows how to 3D scan an object using just a camera and free software (Visual SFM, CMVS and MeshLab). I tried this method, but unfortunately, my former…