Conference: College Art Association (CAA) Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, CA Dates: February 22-25 2012 LITHICS VISUALIZATION PROJECT Session.

Conference: College Art Association (CAA)

Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, CA

Dates: February 22-25 2012

LITHICS VISUALIZATION PROJECTSession Title:

Lithics Visualization for Analysis of Patterns and Aesthetic Presentation

Co-author/speaker: Georgia Gene Berryhill, Ph.D. - University of Maryland - UMUC

Co-authors: Thomas E. Levy, Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego

Lev Manovich, Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego

Session:

Information Visualization as a Research Method in Art History

Session Chairs:

• Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute

• Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego

Main Points:

• Scholars are interested in Information Visualization for their research.

• Large-scale digital collections provide online access to materials.

• Information Visualization enables exploration of complex relationships and

patterns of visual artifacts.

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Type of Lithic: Pressure flaked Neolithic Arrowheads

(ventral and dorsal views)

LIGHTROOM - To date, close to 1000 arrowheads in the catalogs.

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Initial Objectives:

• Photograph a visual

collection/database of the

lithics which will provide

a

large sampling suitable for

visual analytics.

• Explore aesthetic

presentation potentials.

• Utilize new software

and computer interfaces.

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Initial Groupings

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Colored background ideas

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Mock up: First Lithics Array Experiment

FIG. 8HIPerSpace

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FIG. 10Gene Berryhill and Tom Levy at HIPerSpace

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Actual Size-about 2.5 CM

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BLOW UP - Over 5 feet in length FIG. 12

FIG. 13Blown up to over 11 feet--shot with a Canon 50D and Sigma Macro lens

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Traditional lighting

with drop shadowsLight box shots

for blue screen

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L-R: Gene Berryhill, Jeremy Douglass and Lev Manovich at the CRCA Lab

Source of Lithics:

Faynan District - Jordan

Wadi Faynan

Dig Site: Tel Tifdan

FIG. 16

View of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Jordanian village of Tel Tifdan dating to ca. 7500 - 6500 BCE. Looking west, the Wilderness of Zin in Israel's Negev desert.

Amuq

Jericho

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Byblos

bodytang

3 Types of Arrowheads

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The Siq at Petra, Jordan

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WF001_19_10265_amuq_1&2

site/area_locus_basket_arrowhead type_dorsal_1 or ventral 2 views

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Excel spreadsheet classifications example

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ImageJ arrow measure 1 for size and shape analysis

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ImageJ arrow measure 2 for size and shape analysis

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ImageJ arrow measure 3 for size and shape analysis

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ImageJ arrow measure 4 for size and shape analysis

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ImageJ Measure Command Options

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ImagePlot

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Once the measurement of each arrow in every photo is complete, we use ImagePlot software developed by Software Studies to create high resolution visualizations where the arrows are positioned according to various combinations of these measurements, as well as the categories normally used by archeologists to describe these artifacts. Lev Manovich

Wadi Faynan Lithic Aesthetic Array(based on a field map)

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