Digitizing Big Things

Time lapse of digitizing a set of very large paintings made as tapestry designs by artist Mark Adams. The pieces were extremely difficult to handle due to their large size, flaking paint, and brittle paper. As you can see it took up to 6 people to manipulate each painting. The painting was moved along the ground underneath a fixed camera to capture multiple image tiles which will later be stitched together to produce a complete image. Joint effort by the digitization team of Stanford University Libraries and Conservation.

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Uploaded on November 17, 2010