Dr Kathryn E. Piquette (University College London) will hold a Refresher Course on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), an advanced imaging technique for the documentation and research of cultural heritage.
The course will take place at the University of Cologne on 7 – 9 September.
Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette
Dr. Piquette has been practicing dome-based RTI and Highlight RTI (H-RTI) for over four years on a wide array of artefacts and other material surface types in museum collections around the world, as well as in a variety of field contexts. Her currently work revolves around the Magica Levantina project (http://papyri.uni-koeln.de/magica-levantina/index.html) and the development of Infrared RTI for the Herculaneum papyri. She received training in RTI techniques from Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) and bases her course on their 4-day training. For more information on the trainings, services and resources offered by CHI, visit: http://culturalheritageimaging.org/Technologies/RTI/