Last week the Do Not Touch? 3D in Museums conference took place organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In order to give a very short talk (5 minutes!) about digitising the tomb chapel of Hetepherakhty, I paid a visit to this lovely town. Thanks to the awesome Rennan Lemos I was a guest at…
Category: Digital methods
Digital Egyptology News
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Following up on last time’s rant, I here present the latest in Digital Egyptology! Search museum collections Perhaps you have heard by now of the awesome Cleo project, which uses AI to search within four big museum collections: the National Museum of Antiquities, the…
The digital past: network analysis, 3D and photogrammetry
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Recently I’ve been getting a lot of inspiration for new digital projects by attending some very insightful workshops. In March, the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities showed us how to use Visone to study power relations between 15th century Florentine families. I am very interested…
Digital Egyptology news
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Exciting things are happening in the field of Digital Egyptology! A selection of projects: Tomb of Nefertari Experius VR have 3D scanned the tomb of Nefertari, allowing you to virtually walk around in it using a Vive headset. The VR experience can be downloaded…
Drawing in Inkscape
As an alternative for drawing in Illustrator, there is free, open source software available that allows you to do something similar: Inkscape. After starting up Inkscape, don’t open but import (File > Import) the photo you’re going to use. In the horizontal toolbar, click View Layers (Shift + Ctrl + L). The layer menu appears on…
Pencil drawing in Photoshop
After reading the tutorial on Vector drawing in Illustrator, you may be wondering: but where’s the fun in that! So in this tutorial, I will show you how to do pencil drawings in Photoshop, using a Wacom tablet. Although Wacom tablets can be super duper expensive, the nifty thing is it comes with a stylus…
Vector drawing in Illustrator
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…
Archaeogaming and Egyptology
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ 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…