Why digital enhancement of rock paintings works: Rescaling and saturating colours

Antiquity

Volumn 75, Issue 290, 2001, Pages 781-792

  David, Bruno ^a   Brayer, John ^b   McNiven, Ian J ^c   Watchman, Alan ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colour science; Digital image enhancement; Digital photography; Rock art; Torres Strait

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038895550     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00089286     Document Type: Article

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