Imaging fossils using reflectance transformation and interactive manipulation of virtual light sources

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Hammer, Øyvind ^a   Bengston, Stefan ^b   Malzbender, Tom ^c   Geb, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Interactive visualization; Photography; Polynomial texture mapping; Surface relief

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 3042843854     PISSN: 10948074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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