User:Praveens
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Praveen Subramani
I am an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student at MIT, where I am entering my second undergraduate year. During Summer 2007, I am working at Calit2 with Jürgen Schulze and Maurizio Seracini.
I can be contacted by e-mail at praveens [at] mit [dot] edu
Project
Italian art diagnostician Maurizio Seracini is a leading pioneer in the field of non-destructive analysis of art and architecture. With his company Editech, Seracini has compiled hundreds of multilayer scans of artwork, particularly layers created by scanning the artwork with different types of light and imaging technologies such as infrared, ultraviolet, and x-rays. Multispectral viewing of these works has repeatedly revealed exquisitely detailed underdrawings that are often different from the final painting, and can even suggest that different artists contributed to a single piece of art. Furthermore, this technology has the potentail to reveal hidden or covered art that has been obscured for practical or historical reasons.
The power of the IVL technology and software has been combined with Seracini's multispectral scans, giving researchers a new way to visually represent the different layers. I will be working in the IVL to modify and enhance the current imaging plugin, or create a new way to examine the multispectral images, such as by creating a 3-D gallery that can be viewed on the C-wall.
Da Vinci's 'Adoration of the Magi'. Seracini's research suggests that Da Vinci is only responsible for the underdrawing of this artwork, while the painting was conducted by another less-skilled artist.
Diagnostic Imaging Technologies
- Structured light scanning survey
- 2D and 3D Modeling
- X-radiography
- IR reflectography <<<Shows charcoal undersketch
- UV fluorescence photography <<<
- B/W infrared photography
- Pseudo color infrared photography
- Photomicrography
- Thermography
Progress
- Week 1: 6/25-6/29:
- Begin research on scanning techniques. - Experimenting with opencover and config and plugin modules. - Researching VRML, a modeling language for representing 3D vector graphics - Comparing differences between 2D development environment and 3D C-wall setup, particularly in OpenCover rendering - Constructed basic gallery of 3 JPEG Da Vinci paintings in a VRML environment
- Week 2: 7/2-7/6:
-Placed basic images into Calit2 building WRL model file to simulate virtual art gallery in Calit building -Set up Flock of Birds (FOB) tracking system for new C-wall on 6th floor -Configured FOB units for use in 1st floor auditorium -Working on positional and rotational calibration for new C-wall tracker system
- Week 3: 7/9-7/13:
-Working on calibration of tracking systems for 1st floor auditorium -Working on image location persistence in gallery VRML models (as demonstrated in Sound Plugin) -Completed saving ability for ImagePlugin (given transform and scaling configurations can be saved) -Completed loading ability for transform, scale, and set name -Met with Maurizio Seracini. Got new data to load into image plugin from his recent trip to Italy. -Got high-res images for editing and processing for SigGraph presentation -Persistence works well in 2-D environment. Next week more 3-D testing to begin on C-wall.
- Week 4: 7/16-7/20:
-Attended Covise/Opencover plugin workshop -Converted new images to OSGA file format for display with ImagePlugin
Ideas
-Enhance image plugin to have the user's spatial distance from the screen represent image zooming to heighten the natural effect of things getting larger as the user gets closer. However, this would not let us use spatial distance to switch between different layers.
